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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2026
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2022
Applicant:
Altera Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Nihat Tunali, San Jose, CA (US);
Arnab Raha, San Jose, CA (US);
Bogdan Pasca, Toulouse, FR;
Martin Langhammer, Salisbury, GB;
Michael Wu, Belmont, CA (US);
Deepak Mathaikutty, Chandler, AZ (US);
Assignee:
Altera Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06N 3/048 (2023.01); G06N 3/08 (2023.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06N 3/048 (2023.01); G06N 3/08 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for implementing an artificial neural network in a computing system that comprises performing a compute operation using an input activation and a weight to generate an output activation, and modifying the output activation using a noise value to increase activation sparsity.