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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 13, 2023
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2018
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Bita Darvish Rouhani, Bellevue, WA (US);
Taesik Na, Sammamish, WA (US);
Eric S. Chung, Woodinville, WA (US);
Daniel Lo, Bothell, WA (US);
Douglas C. Burger, Bellevue, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Technology related to training a neural network accelerator using mixed precision data formats is disclosed. In one example of the disclosed technology, a neural network accelerator is configured to accelerate a given layer of a multi-layer neural network. An input tensor for the given layer can be converted from a normal-precision floating-point format to a quantized-precision floating-point format. A tensor operation can be performed using the converted input tensor. A result of the tensor operation can be converted from the block floating-point format to the normal-precision floating-point format. The converted result can be used to generate an output tensor of the layer of the neural network, where the output tensor is in normal-precision floating-point format.