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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 26, 2023
Filed:
Dec. 09, 2022
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Taesik Na, Issaquah, WA (US);
Daniel Lo, Bothell, WA (US);
Haishan Zhu, Bellevue, WA (US);
Eric Sen Chung, Woodinville, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Bounding box quantization can reduce the quantity of bits utilized to express numerical values prior to the multiplication of matrices comprised of such numerical values, thereby reducing both memory consumption and processor utilization. Stochastic rounding can provide sufficient precision to enable the storage of weight values in reduced-precision formats without having to separately store weight values in a full-precision format. Alternatively, other rounding mechanisms, such as round to nearest, can be utilized to exchange weight values in reduced-precision formats, while also storing weight values in full-precision formats for subsequent updating. To facilitate conversion, reduced-precision formats such as brain floating-point format can be utilized.