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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 2024
Filed:
Feb. 01, 2018
Applicant:
Graphcore Limited, Bristol, GB;
Inventors:
Assignee:
GRAPHCORE LIMITED, Bristol, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/30 (2018.01); G06N 3/08 (2023.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/30036 (2013.01); G06F 9/30018 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present invention relates to an execution unit for executing a computer program comprising a sequence of instructions, which include a masking instruction. The execution unit is configured to execute the masking instruction which, when executed by the execution unit, masks randomly selected values from a source operand of n values and retains other original values from the source operand to generate a result which includes original values from the source operand and symbols in place of the selected values.