ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,412, issued on April 15, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Slice-based dynamic neural networks" was invented by Khaled Refaat (Mountain View, Calif.) and Stephane Ross (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for processing inputs using slice-based dynamic neural networks. One of the methods includes receiving a new input for processing by a neural network that includes a first conditional neural network layer that has a set of shared parameters and a respective set of slice parameters for each of a plurality of sl...