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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2023
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2018
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Rexford Hill, San Diego, CA (US);
Aaron Lamb, San Diego, CA (US);
Michael Goldfarb, San Diego, CA (US);
Amin Ansari, San Diego, CA (US);
Christopher Lott, San Diego, CA (US);
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of exploiting activation sparsity in deep neural networks is described. The method includes retrieving an activation tensor and a weight tensor where the activation tensor is a sparse activation tensor. The method also includes generating a compressed activation tensor comprising non-zero activations of the activation tensor, where the compressed activation tensor has fewer columns than the activation tensor. The method further includes processing the compressed activation tensor and the weight tensor to generate an output tensor.