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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 13, 2026
Filed:
Jun. 10, 2020
Google Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Raviteja Vemulapalli, Seattle, WA (US);
Jianrui Cai, Cupertino, CA (US);
Bradley Ray Green, Bellevue, WA (US);
Ching-Hui Chen, Shoreline, WA (US);
Lior Shapira, Redmond, WA (US);
GOOGLE LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
At training time, a base neural network can be trained to perform each of a plurality of basis subtasks included in a total set of basis subtasks (e.g., individually or some combination thereof). Next, a description of a desired combined subtask can be obtained. Based on the description of the combined subtask, a mask generator can produce a pruning mask which is used to prune the base neural network into a smaller combined-subtask-specific network that performs only the two or more basis subtasks included in the combined subtask.