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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2026
Filed:
Oct. 06, 2020
Sisvel Technology S.r.l., None, IT;
Institut Mines Télécom, Paris, FR;
Enzo Tartaglione, Nardo', IT;
Marco Grangetto, Pinerolo, IT;
Francesco Odierna, Sarno, IT;
Andrea Bragagnolo, Robassomero, IT;
Attilio Fiandrotti, Turin, IT;
SISVEL TECHNOLOGY S.R.L., None, IT;
INSTITUT MINES TÉLÉCOM, Paris, FR;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a method for pruning a neural network comprising a plurality of neurons, said method comprising: an initialization phase, wherein input information is fetched comprising at least parameters ({w,b}) related to said neural network and a dataset (D) representative of a task that said neural network has to deal with, wherein said parameters ({w,b}) comprising a weights vector (w) and/or a bias (b) related to at least one neuron of said plurality of neurons; a regularization phase, wherein said neural network is trained according to a training algorithm by using said dataset (D); a thresholding phase, wherein an element (w) of said weights vector (w) is put at zero when its absolute value is below a given threshold (T).