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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 06, 2022

Filed:

Feb. 17, 2020
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Junsong Wang, Beijing, CN;

Chang Xu, Beijing, CN;

Tao Wang, Beijing, CN;

Yan Gong, Beijing, CN;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06N 20/10 (2019.01); G06K 9/62 (2022.01); G06N 3/08 (2006.01); G06N 3/063 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/6232 (2013.01); G06N 3/063 (2013.01); G06N 3/08 (2013.01); G06N 20/10 (2019.01);
Abstract

A method for configuring a set of hardware accelerators to process a CNN. In an embodiment, the method includes one or more computer processors determining a set of parameters related to a feature map to analyze at a respective layer of the CNN, the set of parameters include quantization value and respective values that describe a shape of the feature map. The method further includes configuring a set of hardware accelerators for the respective layer of the CNN. The method further includes receiving a portion of the feature map to the configured set of hardware accelerators for the respective layer of the CNN, wherein the received portion of the feature map includes a group of sequential data slices. The method further includes analyzing the group of sequential data slices among the configured set of hardware accelerators.


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