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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 21, 2023
Filed:
Oct. 11, 2019
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Giby Samson, San Diego, CA (US);
Srivatsan Chellappa, San Diego, CA (US);
Ramaprasath Vilangudipitchai, San Diego, CA (US);
Seung Hyuk Kang, San Diego, CA (US);
QUALCOMM INCORPORATED, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
Certain aspects of the present disclosure are directed to methods and apparatus for configuring a multiply-accumulate (MAC) block in an artificial neural network. A method generally includes receiving, at a neural processing unit comprising one or more logic elements, at least one input associated with a use-case of the neural processing unit; obtaining a set of weights associated with the at least one input; selecting a precision for the set of weights; modifying the set of weights based on the selected precision; and generating an output based, at least in part, on the at least one input, the modified set of weights, and an activation function.