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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 21, 2026
Filed:
Oct. 24, 2021
Habana Labs Ltd., Caesarea, IL;
Itay Hubara, Jerusalem, IL;
Chen Koren, Hadera, IL;
Brian Chmiel, Nesher, IL;
Moshe Island, Tel Mond, IL;
Ron Banner, Yoqneam Illit, IL;
Intel Overseas Funding Corporation, Chandler, AZ (US);
Abstract
A method includes receiving a trained deep neural network (DNN) having multiple layers represented by respective weight matrices. The DNN is pruned by, for at least one layer represented by a respective weight matrix including multiple weights, converting the weight matrix into a structured sparse weight matrix by (a) defining multiple M-element line-blocks in the weight matrix, each line-block including the weights along an M-element portion of a row of the weight matrix, and respective multiple M-element column-blocks in a transpose of the weight matrix (b) specifying a subset of at least N weights in the weight matrix that are to be nulled in each M-element line-block and respective at least N weights to be nulled in each M-element column-block of the transpose of the weight matrix, and (c) nulling the weights in the subset. A deep learning operation is performed using the pruned DNN.