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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2022
Filed:
Nov. 05, 2021
Sambanova Systems, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Mingran Wang, San Jose, CA (US);
Raghu Prabhakar, San Jose, CA (US);
Darshan Dhimantkumar Gandhi, RoundRock, TX (US);
Maulik Subhash Desai, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Nathan Francis Sheeley, Austin, TX (US);
Scott Layson Burson, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sitanshu Gupta, San Jose, CA (US);
SambaNova Systems, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
The technology disclosed relates to matrix multiplication where the multiplier can be a sparse matrix. In particular, a multiplication device includes first circuitry configured to obtain the multiplicand matrix and an index of columns of the multiplier matrix and to generate an intermediate matrix that has one row per entry in the index copied from a respective row of the multiplicand matrix based on a value of a corresponding entry in the index. The device also includes second circuitry configured to receive the intermediate matrix from the first circuitry, obtain non-zero values of the multiplier matrix and a list of a number of non-zero entries per row of the multiplier matrix, and generate a product matrix as a result of multiplies of the non-zero values of the multiplier matrix and the intermediate matrix.