Neuron smearing for accelerated deep learning

Abstract

Techniques in advanced deep learning provide improvements in one or more of accuracy, performance, and energy efficiency. An array of processing elements performs flow-based computations on wavelets of data. Each processing element has a respective compute element and a respective routing element. Each compute element has memory. At least a first single neuron is implemented using resources of a plurality of the array of processing elements. At least a portion of a second neuron is implemented using resources of one or more of the plurality of processing elements. In some usage scenarios, the foregoing neuron implementation enables greater performance by enabling a single neuron to use the computational resources of multiple processing elements and/or computational load balancing across the processing elements while maintaining locality of incoming activations for the processing elements.