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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 17, 2023
Filed:
Jan. 12, 2018
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abhisek Kundu, Bangalore, IN;
Naveen Mellempudi, Bangalore, IN;
Dheevatsa Mudigere, Bangalore, IN;
Dipankar Das, Pune, IN;
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
One embodiment provides for a computing device comprising a parallel processor compute unit to perform a set of parallel integer compute operations; a ternarization unit including a weight ternarization circuit and an activation quantization circuit; wherein the weight ternarization circuit is to convert a weight tensor from a floating-point representation to a ternary representation including a ternary weight and a scale factor; wherein the activation quantization circuit is to convert an activation tensor from a floating-point representation to an integer representation; and wherein the parallel processor compute unit includes one or more circuits to perform the set of parallel integer compute operations on the ternary representation of the weight tensor and the integer representation of the activation tensor.