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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 12, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 18, 2015
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Arnon Amir, Saratoga, CA (US);
Rathinakumar Appuswamy, San Jose, CA (US);
Pallab Datta, San Jose, CA (US);
Myron D. Flickner, San Jose, CA (US);
Paul A. Merolla, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Dharmendra S. Modha, San Jose, CA (US);
Benjamin G. Shaw, San Francisco, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
One embodiment of the invention provides a system for mapping a neural network onto a neurosynaptic substrate. The system comprises a reordering unit for reordering at least one dimension of an adjacency matrix representation of the neural network. The system further comprises a mapping unit for selecting a mapping method suitable for mapping at least one portion of the matrix representation onto the substrate, and mapping the at least one portion of the matrix representation onto the substrate utilizing the mapping method selected. The system further comprises a refinement unit for receiving user input regarding at least one criterion relating to accuracy or resource utilization of the substrate. The system further comprises an evaluating unit for evaluating each mapped portion against each criterion. Each mapped portion that fails to satisfy a criterion may be remapped to allow trades offs between accuracy and resource utilization of the substrate.