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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2026
Filed:
Aug. 04, 2020
Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, Wolfsburg, DE;
Nikhil Kapoor, Wolfsburg, DE;
Peter Schlicht, Wolfsburg, DE;
John Serin Varghese, Braunschweig, DE;
Jan David Schneider, Wolfsburg, DE;
VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT, Wolfsburg, DE;
Abstract
The disclosure relates to methods for compressing a neural network, wherein members of a vehicle fleet locally execute the neural network and during at least one inference phase each determine a selection of elements of the neural network that should be pruned, wherein the members of the fleet transmit the respective determined selection to a central server, wherein the central server merges the respective transmitted selections and generates a merged selection, and wherein the central server prunes the neural network on the basis of the merged selection.
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