Black Sesame Technologies Inc.

Fen Zhou

Xiangdong Jin

Chengyu Xiong

A method of constructing an adaptive multiply accumulate layer in a convolutional neural network, including determining an activation data map width, an activation data map height, a channel depth, a batch, a kernel width, a kernel height and a filter set number, setting a first dimension of an adaptive multiplier layer based on the activation data map width, setting a second dimension of the adaptive multiplier layer based on the channel depth, setting a third dimension of the adaptive multiplier layer based on the filter set number and constructing the adaptive multiplier layer based on the first dimension, the second dimension and the third dimension.

Convolutional neural network using adaptive 3D array

A method of subgraph tile fusion in a convolutional neural network, including partitioning a network into at least one subgraph node, determining a layer order of at least one layer of the at least one subgraph node, determining a input layer of the at least one subgraph node, determining a weight layer of the at least one subgraph node, determining a output layer of the at least one subgraph node and fusing the at least one subgraph node, the input layer, the weight layer and the output layer in the layer order.

Subgraph tile fusion in a convolutional neural network

A method of hierarchical structuring a multi-level memory in a convolutional neural network, includes partitioning a memory into a plurality of sections, partitioning the plurality of sections into a plurality of stripes, utilizing input data from the plurality of stripes in a MAC array, outputting an intermediate result from the MAC array to at least one of the plurality of stripes of a result buffer, looping back the intermediate result from the at least one of the plurality of stripes of the result buffer to at least one of the plurality of stripes of an input data buffer and outputting a final result from the at least one of the plurality of stripes of the result buffer to at least one of the plurality of stripes of an output buffer.

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