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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 2026
Filed:
Oct. 26, 2021
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Osaka University, Osaka, JP;
HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
OSAKA UNIVERSITY, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A node pruning device for a network model in which a plurality of layers are continuously connected includes: a node activation section configured to select a node to be pruned on the basis of a score function that represents importance of a node; an inter-layer pairing section configured to prune an input connected to a node pruned at an output of a previous layer; a bypass setting section configured to provide a bypass connection between an input and an output of a layer and not to prune the bypass connection; and a pruning execution section configured to prune the nodes with the same pruning rate for each layer.