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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 2024
Filed:
Jul. 07, 2020
National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, TW;
Kea-Tiong Tang, Taipei, TW;
Wei-Chen Wei, Taichung, TW;
NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY, Hsinchu, TW;
Abstract
A quantization parameter providing step of a quantization method is performed to provide a quantization parameter which includes a quantized input activation, a quantized weight and a splitting value. A parameter splitting step is performed to split the quantized weight and the quantized input activation into a plurality of grouped quantized weights and a plurality of grouped activations, respectively, according to the splitting value. A multiply-accumulate step is performed to execute a multiply-accumulate operation with one of the grouped quantized weights and one of the grouped activations, and then generate a convolution output. A convolution quantization step is performed to quantize the convolution output to a quantized convolution output according to a convolution target bit. A convolution merging step is performed to execute a partial-sum operation with the quantized convolution output according to the splitting value, and then generate an output activation.