US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology on Aug. 26 for "Method and apparatus with neural network operation using sparsification" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,120, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (Ulsan, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus with neural network operation using sparsification" was invented by Sehwan Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Hyeon Uk Sim (Iksan-si, South Korea) and Jongeun Lee (Ulsan, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor-implemented neural network operation method includes: receiving a first activation gradient and a first threshold corresponding to a layer included in a neural network; sparsifying the first activation gradient based on the fi...