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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 03, 2026
Filed:
Apr. 29, 2020
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Chen Zhang, Beijing, CN;
Yunxin Liu, Beijing, CN;
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Various implementations of the subject matter as described herein relate to a sparse convolutional neural network. In some implementations, a computer-implemented method comprises: quantizing an input feature map to obtain a quantized input feature map; determining, based on the quantized input feature map, a sparsity mask for an output feature map through a quantized version of a convolutional neural network, the sparsity mask indicating positions of non-zero entries in the output feature map; and determining, based on the input feature map, the non-zero entries indicated by the sparsity mask in the output feature map through the convolutional neural network.