ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,191, issued on June 10, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Method and apparatus with neural network pruning" was invented by Won-Jo Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Youngmin Oh (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Minkyoung Cho (Incheon, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A neural network pruning method includes acquiring a first task accuracy of an inference task processed by a pretrained neural network, pruning, based on a channel unit, the neural network by adjusting weights between nodes of channels based on a preset learning weight and based on a channel-by-channel pruning parameter corresponding t...