Patent ID: 11907843
Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 4:
5. An apparatus comprising:
a processor; and
a memory including a set of instructions, which when executed by the processor, causes the apparatus to:
conduct an importance measurement of a plurality of parameters in a trained neural network based on covariance matrix information, wherein the covariance matrix information is to indicate that first values of an inverse covariance matrix are greater than second values of the inverse covariance matrix, wherein the first values correspond to a first subset of the plurality of parameters and the second values correspond to a second subset of the plurality of parameters;
set the first subset of the plurality of parameters to zero and bypass a modification of the second subset of the plurality of parameters to zero based on the first values being greater than the second values to obtain a pruned neural network; and
re-train the pruned neural network.