US 12,008,461 B2
Method for determining neuron events based on cluster activations and apparatus performing same method
Jun Haeng Lee, Hwaseong-si (KR); Daniel Neil, Zurich (CH); Shih-Chii Liu, Zurich (CH); and Tobi Delbruck, Zurich (CH)
Assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Suwon-si (KR); and UNIVERSITAET ZUERICH, Zurich (CH)
Filed by SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Suwon-si (KR); and UNIVERSITAET ZUERICH, Zurich (CH)
Filed on Feb. 9, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/171,551.
Application 17/171,551 is a division of application No. 15/607,007, filed on May 26, 2017, granted, now 10,949,737.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/429,146, filed on Dec. 2, 2016.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/361,626, filed on Jul. 13, 2016.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2016-0113039 (KR), filed on Sep. 2, 2016; and application No. 10-2017-0053543 (KR), filed on Apr. 26, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2021/0166112 A1, Jun. 3, 2021
Int. Cl. G06N 3/06 (2006.01); G06N 3/044 (2023.01); G06N 3/049 (2023.01); G06N 3/063 (2023.01); G06F 3/00 (2006.01)
CPC G06N 3/063 (2013.01) [G06N 3/044 (2023.01); G06N 3/049 (2013.01); G06F 3/002 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
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1. A method which is performable by using a neural network, the method comprising:
determining a current activation of an artificial neuron based on a previous activation of the artificial neuron and an input signal received via an input synapse of the artificial neuron;
determining whether an event occurs in response to a first cluster that includes the previous activation and a second cluster that includes the determined current activation; and
transmitting, to an output synapse, an output signal that corresponds to the event in response to an occurrence of the event, wherein the output signal includes at least one change bit that indicates at least one from among a change direction of at least one from among the first cluster and the second cluster and a change amount of the at least one from among the first cluster and the second cluster.