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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2022
Filed:
Mar. 11, 2020
Applicant:
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Inventors:
Jamie Menjay Lin, San Diego, CA (US);
Edwin Chongwoo Park, San Diego, CA (US);
Nojun Kwak, San Diego, CA (US);
Assignee:
Qualcomm Incorproated, San Diego, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06N 20/10 (2019.01); G06N 3/08 (2006.01); G06F 7/523 (2006.01); G06N 5/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06N 3/084 (2013.01); G06F 7/523 (2013.01); G06N 5/046 (2013.01); G06N 20/10 (2019.01);
Abstract
A method for operating a low-bitwidth neural network includes converting a first activation to a non-negative value (e.g., absolute value). The first activation has a signed value. The sign of the activation is used to select a weight value. A product of the non-negative activation and the selected weight value is computed to determine a next activation. The next activation is quantized and supplied to a subsequent layer of the low-bitwidth neural network.