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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 14, 2023
Filed:
Mar. 12, 2020
Applicant:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Inventors:
Saptarsi Das, Bangalore, IN;
Sabitha Kusuma, Bangalore, IN;
Sehwan Lee, Suwon-si, KR;
Ankur Deshwal, Bangalore, IN;
Kiran Kolar Chandrasekharan, Bangalore, IN;
Assignee:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06N 3/04 (2006.01); G06F 17/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06N 3/04 (2013.01); G06F 17/16 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method and an apparatus for processing layers in a neural network fetch Input Feature Map (IFM) tiles of an IFM tensor and kernel tiles of a kernel tensor, perform a convolutional operation on the IFM tiles and the kernel tiles by exploiting IFM sparsity and kernel sparsity, and generate a plurality of OFM tiles corresponding to the IFM tiles.