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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 01, 2022
Filed:
Jan. 24, 2019
Kneron (Taiwan) Co., Ltd., Taipei, TW;
Bike Xie, San Diego, CA (US);
Junjie Su, San Diego, CA (US);
Bodong Zhang, Shenyang, CN;
Chun-Chen Liu, San Diego, CA (US);
Kneron (Taiwan) Co., Ltd., Taipei, TW;
Abstract
A method of pruning a batch normalization layer from a pre-trained deep neural network model is proposed. The pre-trained deep neural network model is inputted as a candidate model. The candidate model is pruned by removing the at least one batch normalization layer from the candidate model to form a pruned candidate model only when the at least one batch normalization layer is connected to and adjacent to a corresponding linear operation layer. The corresponding linear operation layer may be at least one of a convolution layer, a dense layer, a depthwise convolution layer, and a group convolution layer. Weights of the corresponding linear operation layer are adjusted to compensate for the removal of the at least one batch normalization. The pruned candidate model is then output and utilized for inference.