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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 03, 2023
Filed:
Mar. 11, 2020
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Jun Fang, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Joseph H. Hassoun, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Ali Shafiee Ardestani, San Jose, CA (US);
Hamzah Ahmed Ali Abdelaziz, San Jose, CA (US);
Georgios Georgiadis, Porter Ranch, CA (US);
Hui Chen, Irvine, CA (US);
David Philip Lloyd Thorsley, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Abstract
In some embodiments, a method of quantizing an artificial neural network includes dividing a quantization range for a tensor of the artificial neural network into a first region and a second region, and quantizing values of the tensor in the first region separately from values of the tensor in the second region. In some embodiments, linear or nonlinear quantization are applied to values of the tensor in the first region and the second region. In some embodiments, the method includes locating a breakpoint between the first region and the second region by substantially minimizing an expected quantization error over at least a portion of the quantization range. In some embodiments, the expected quantization error is minimized by solving analytically and/or searching numerically.