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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 04, 2023
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2020
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Naigang Wang, Ossining, NY (US);
Jungwook Choi, Chappaqua, NY (US);
Kailash Gopalakrishnan, San Jose, CA (US);
Ankur Agrawal, White Plains, NY (US);
Silvia Melitta Mueller, Altdorf, DE;
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
In an embodiment, a method includes configuring a specialized circuit for floating point computations using numbers represented by a hybrid format, wherein the hybrid format includes a first format and a second format. In the embodiment, the method includes operating the further configured specialized circuit to store an approximation of a numeric value in the first format during a forward pass for training a deep learning network. In the embodiment, the method includes operating the further configured specialized circuit to store an approximation of a second numeric value in the second format during a backward pass for training the deep learning network.