This invention describes a system for an autonomous vehicle (AV) to manage its internal deep learning systems. It works by first assessing how complex the driving environment is. If the environment is simple enough, the AV can reduce the size of its neural network, then test this smaller network in a simulation. Based on the simulation results, the AV adjusts its settings, and if performance is still not good enough, it can make the neural network even smaller.
Why it matters: Filed before widespread adoption of dynamic model pruning and adaptive inference for edge AI. The claims cover adjusting AV systems based on real-time complexity, a problem now better addressed by more mature adaptive AI techniques.
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