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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2026
Filed:
Feb. 16, 2021
Northeastern University, Boston, MA (US);
Yanzhi Wang, Newton Highlands, MA (US);
Xiaolong MA, Boston, MA (US);
Northeastern University, Boston, MA (US);
Abstract
A computer-implemented method is disclosed for compressing a deep neural network (DNN) model by DNN weight pruning to accelerate DNN inference on mobile devices. The method includes the steps of (a) performing an intra-convolution kernel pruning of the DNN model wherein a fixed number of weights are pruned in each convolution kernel of the DNN model to generate sparse convolution patterns; (b) performing inter-convolution kernel pruning of the DNN model to generate connectivity sparsity, wherein inter-convolution kernel pruning comprises cutting connections between given input and output channels of the DNN model to remove corresponding kernels; and (c) training the DNN model compressed in steps (a) and (b).