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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 26, 2023
Filed:
Jan. 14, 2021
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Karthikeyan Avudaiyappan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Jeffrey Andrews, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the present disclosure include systems and methods for accelerating processing based on sparsity for neural network hardware processors. An input manager determines a pair of non-zero values from a pair of data streams in a plurality of pairs of data streams and retrieve the pair of non-zero values from the pair of data streams. A multiplier performs a multiplication operation on the pair of non-zero values and generate a product of the pair of non-zero values. An accumulator manager receives the product of the pair of non-zero values from the multiplier and sends the product of the pair of non-zero values to a corresponding accumulator in a plurality of accumulators.