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

Claim 6:
7. An apparatus for operating an artificial neural network (ANN), comprising:
a memory; and
at least one processor coupled to the memory, the at least one processor being configured:
to receive an input by the ANN;
to generate, via the ANN, a latent representation of the input, the latent representation including a plurality of latents;
to apply 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;
to determine that at least one scaled latent associated with at least one channel among the plurality of channels is below a predefined threshold;
to determine 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
to transmit at least one second channel among the plurality of channels.