US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on May 6 for "Method and apparatus for unification based coding for neural network model compression" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,274, issued on May 6, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for unification based coding for neural network model compression" was invented by Wei Wang (Palo Alto, Calif.), Wei Jiang (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Shan Liu (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of unification based coding for neural network model compression is performed by at least one processor and includes receiving a layer uniform flag indicating whether a quantized weight of an input neural network is encoded using a uniform coding method, and determining whether the quantized weight is encoded using the unif...