The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2024
Filed:
Apr. 17, 2017
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Liwei Ma, Beijing, CN;
Elmoustapha Ould- Ahmed-Vall, Chandler, AZ (US);
Barath Lakshmanan, Chandler, AZ (US);
Ben J. Ashbaugh, Folsom, CA (US);
Jingyi Jin, Folsom, CA (US);
Jeremy Bottleson, Rancho Cordova, CA (US);
Mike B. Macpherson, Portland, OR (US);
Kevin Nealis, San Jose, CA (US);
Dhawal Srivastava, Pheonix, AZ (US);
Joydeep Ray, Folsom, CA (US);
Ping T. Tang, Edison, NJ (US);
Michael S. Strickland, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Xiaoming Chen, Shanghai, CN;
Anbang Yao, Beijing, CN;
Tatiana Shpeisman, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Altug Koker, El Dorado Hills, CA (US);
Abhishek R. Appu, El Dorado Hills, CA (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus to facilitate optimization of a convolutional neural network (CNN) is disclosed. The apparatus includes optimization logic to receive a CNN model having a list of instructions and including pruning logic to optimize the list of instructions by eliminating branches in the list of instructions that comprise a weight value of 0.