Neuron smearing for accelerated deep learning
US11488004B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Apr 15, 2018 |
| Grant date | Nov 1, 2022 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 15, 2038 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06N7/01
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Techniques in advanced deep learning provide improvements in one or more of accuracy, performance, and energy efficiency. An array of processing elements performs flow-based computations on wavelets of data. Each processing element has a respective compute element and a respective routing element. Each compute element has memory. At least a first single neuron is implemented using resources of a plurality of the array of processing elements. At least a portion of a second neuron is implemented using resources of one or more of the plurality of processing elements. In some usage scenarios, the foregoing neuron implementation enables greater performance by enabling a single neuron to use the computational resources of multiple processing elements and/or computational load balancing across the processing elements while maintaining locality of incoming activations for the processing elements.
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