US Patent Issued to THE TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY on Aug. 19 for "System and method for incremental learning using a grow-and-prune paradigm with neural networks" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,842, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to THE TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY (Princeton, N.J.).

"System and method for incremental learning using a grow-and-prune paradigm with neural networks" was invented by Xiaoliang Dai (Princeton, N.J.), Hongxu Yin (Princeton, N.J.) and Niraj K. Jha (Princeton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to various embodiments, a method for generating a compact and accurate neural network for a dataset that has initial data and is updated with new data is disclosed. The method includes performing a first training on the initial neural network architecture to create a first trained neural netwo...