US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS, UNIST(ULSAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY) on Nov. 11 for "Method and apparatus with neural network parameter quantization" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,946, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea) and UNIST(ULSAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY) (Ulsan, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus with neural network parameter quantization" was invented by Hyeongseok Yu (Seoul, South Korea), Hyeonuk 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 method includes determining a first quantization value by performing log quantization on a parameter from one of input activation values and weight values in a layer of a neural network, comparing a threshold value with...