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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 16, 2023
Filed:
Mar. 22, 2019
SK Hynix Inc., Icheon, KR;
Postech Academy-industry Foundation, Pohang, KR;
Junki Park, Pohang, KR;
Jae-Joon Kim, Pohang, KR;
SK hynix Inc., Icheon, KR;
POSTECH ACADEMY-INDUSTRY FOUNDATION, Pohang, KR;
Abstract
A method formats a weight matrix in a current layer included in a neural network. The method includes calculating a row length for each row of the weight matrix based on a number of elements each of which has non-zero value; storing rearrangement information including result of sorting rows in the order of row lengths; performing a row transformation or the row transformation and a column transformation on the weight matrix using the rearrangement information; distributing rows of a transformed weight matrix to a plurality of processing elements (PEs); and generating formatted data including one or more group data each including values and column information being processed in each of the PEs.