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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 06, 2022
Filed:
Oct. 29, 2019
Meta Platforms, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Yuchen Hao, Fremont, CA (US);
Krishnakumar Narayanan Nair, Newark, CA (US);
Ehsan Khish Ardestani Zadeh, San Jose, CA (US);
Rakesh Komuravelli, Fremont, CA (US);
Abdulkadir Utku Diril, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Thomas Mark Ulrich, Mountain View, CA (US);
Meta Platforms, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
A first group of elements is element-wise multiplied with a second group of elements using a plurality of multipliers belonging to a matrix multiplication hardware unit. Results of the plurality of multipliers are added together using a hierarchical tree of adders belonging to the matrix multiplication hardware unit and a final result of the hierarchical tree of adders or any of a plurality of intermediate results of the hierarchical tree of adders is selectively provided for use in determining an output result matrix. A control unit is used to instruct the matrix multiplication hardware unit to perform a plurality of different matrix multiplications in parallel by using a combined matrix that includes elements of a plurality of different operand matrices and utilize one or more selected ones of the intermediate results of the hierarchical tree of adders for use in determining the output result matrix that includes different groups of elements representing different multiplication results corresponding to different ones of the different operand matrices.