Intel Corporation

Pradeep Janedula

Bharat Daga

Aravind Babu Srinivasan

Bijoy Pazhanimala

Ambili Vengallur

Ajit Singh

Krishnakumar Nair

Saurabh Dhoble

An apparatus to facilitate execution of non-linear functions operations is disclosed. The apparatus comprises accelerator circuitry including a compute grid having a plurality of processing elements to execute neural network computations, store values resulting from the neural network computations, and perform piecewise linear (PWL) approximations of one or more non-linear functions using the stored values as input data.

Mechanism to perform non-linear functions in a machine learning accelerator

Hardware accelerators for accelerated grouped convolution operations. A first buffer of a hardware accelerator may receive a first row of an input feature map (IFM) from a memory. A first group comprising a plurality of tiles may receive a first row of the IFM. A plurality of processing elements of the first group may compute a portion of a first row of an output feature map (OFM) based on the first row of the IFM and a kernel. A second buffer of the accelerator may receive a third row of the IFM from the memory. A second group comprising a plurality of tiles may receive the third row of the IFM. A plurality of processing elements of the second group may compute a portion of a third row of the OFM based on the third row of the IFM and the kernel as part of a grouped convolution operation.

Efficient hardware architecture for accelerating grouped convolutions

One embodiment provides a compute apparatus to perform machine learning operations, the compute apparatus comprising a hardware accelerator including a compute unit to perform a Winograd convolution, the compute unit configurable to perform the Winograd convolution for a first kernel size using a transform associated with a second kernel size.

System and method for an optimized winograd convolution accelerator

An apparatus to facilitate acceleration of machine learning operations is disclosed. The apparatus comprises accelerator circuitry including a first set of processing elements to perform first computations including matrix multiplication operations, a second set of processing elements to perform second computations including sum of elements of weights and offset multiply operations and a third set of processing elements to perform third computations including sum of elements of inputs and offset multiply operations, wherein the second and third computations are performed in parallel with the first computations.

Machine learning accelerator architecture

A mechanism is described for facilitating efficient memory layout for enabling smart data compression in machine learning environments. A method of embodiments, as described herein, includes facilitating dividing an initial tile representing an image into primary multiple tiles such that each tile of the primary multiple tiles is regarded as an independent image as processed by one or more processors of a computing device. The method may further include computing the primary multiple tiles into secondary multiple tiles compatible in size of a local buffer. The method may further include merging the multiple secondary multiple tiles into a final tile representing the image, and compressing the final tile.

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