SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR QUANTIZING NEURAL NETWORKS VIA PERIODIC REGULARIZATION FUNCTIONS

Patent №

US 11,468,313

Granted

2022-10-11

Filed 2018

Owner

FACEBOOK, INC.,

AI components

4

ml · vision · planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

16006095

The disclosed computer-implemented method may include (1) identifying an artificial neural network comprising a set of nodes interconnected via a set of connections, and (2) training the artificial neural network by, for each connection in the set of connections, determining a quantized weight value associated with the connection. Determining the quantized weight value associated with the connection may include (1) associating a loss function with the connection, the loss function including a periodic regularization function that describes a relationship between an input value and a weight value of the connection, (2) determining a minimum of the associated loss function with respect to the weight value in accordance with the periodic regularization function, and (3) generating the quantized weight value associated with the connection based on the determined minimum of the loss function. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.

Machine learningVisionPlanningAI hardwareG06N 3/0495G06N 3/084G06N 3/04G06N 3/0464G06N 3/047G06N 3/061G06N 3/082G06N 5/00+3 more

AI classification

Machine learning1.00
AI hardware1.00
Planning1.00
Vision0.83
Knowledge representation0.41
Evolutionary computation0.10
Speech0.00
Natural language0.00

Ownership

FACEBOOK, INC.,

assignment · 487870577

Assignors

NAUMOV, MAXIM, DIRIL, ABDULKADIR UTKU, PARK, JONG SOO, RAY, BENJAMIN, JABLONSKI, JEDRZEJ, TULOCH, ANDREW JOHN

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