Systems and methods for generating gaussian random numbers with hardware acceleration

US11635943B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Intel Corporation · US

Inventors

• Yiwen Guo · Beijing, CN
• Anbang Yao · Beijing, CN
• Dongqi Cai · Beijing, CN
• Libin Wang · Dongxing District, CN
• Lin Xu · Fremont, US
• Ping Hu · Beijing, CN
• Shandong Wang · Beijing, CN
• Wenhua Cheng · Shanghai, CN

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 7, 2017
• Grant date: Apr 25, 2023
• Expiry date: Apr 9, 2039

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06N3/045
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Described herein are hardware acceleration of random number generation for machine learning and deep learning applications. An apparatus (700) includes a uniform random number generator (URNG) circuit (710) to generate uniform random numbers and an adder circuit (750) that is coupled to the URNG circuit (710). The adder circuit hardware (750) accelerates generation of Gaussian random numbers for machine learning.