Patent ID: 11943460
Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A computer-implemented method for operating an artificial neural network (ANN), comprising:
receiving an input by the ANN;
generating, via the ANN, a latent representation of the input, the latent representation including a plurality of latents;
applying a respective learned latent scaling parameter to each latent to generate a plurality of respective scaled latents, where each respective learned latent scaling parameter is learned as a function of a respective channel among a plurality of channels and a tradeoff parameter;
determining that at least one scaled latent associated with at least one channel among the plurality of channels is below a predefined threshold;
determining not to transmit the at least one channel based on the determination that the at least one scaled latent is below the predefined threshold; and
transmitting at least one second channel among the plurality of channels.