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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 25, 2023
Filed:
Apr. 07, 2017
Applicant:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
Yiwen Guo, Beijing, CN;
Anbang Yao, Beijing, CN;
Dongqi Cai, Beijing, CN;
Libin Wang, Beijing, CN;
Lin Xu, Beijing, CN;
Ping Hu, Beijing, CN;
Shandong Wang, Beijing, CN;
Wenhua Cheng, Beijing, CN;
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/58 (2006.01); G06N 3/04 (2023.01); G06N 3/084 (2023.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/588 (2013.01); G06N 3/0445 (2013.01); G06N 3/0472 (2013.01); G06N 3/084 (2013.01);
Abstract
Described herein are hardware acceleration of random number generation for machine learning and deep learning applications. An apparatus () includes a uniform random number generator (URNG) circuit () to generate uniform random numbers and an adder circuit () that is coupled to the URNG circuit (). The adder circuit hardware () accelerates generation of Gaussian random numbers for machine learning.