US Patent Issued to Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University on Dec. 16 for "Method and apparatus for pruning based on the number of updates" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,364, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for pruning based on the number of updates" was invented by Hee Kwang Jeon (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jee-Hyong Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a method and an apparatus for pruning based on the number of updates, the method comprising counting the number of updates of weights for each epoch and removing n weights for which the number of updates is small after training of a network is completed, wherein n represents the number of weights to be removed to ...