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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 2024
Filed:
Dec. 01, 2020
Applicant:
Postech Research and Business Development Foundation, Pohang-si, KR;
Inventors:
Assignee:
POSTECH RESEARCH AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION, Pohang-si, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 5/06 (2006.01); G06F 7/76 (2006.01); G06F 17/15 (2006.01); G06F 17/16 (2006.01); G06N 3/047 (2023.01); G06N 3/063 (2023.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06N 3/063 (2013.01); G06F 5/06 (2013.01); G06F 7/76 (2013.01); G06F 17/15 (2013.01); G06F 17/16 (2013.01); G06N 3/047 (2023.01); G06F 5/065 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of processing of a sparsity-aware neural processing unit includes receiving a plurality of input activations (IA); obtaining a weight having a non-zero value in each weight output channel; storing the weight and the IA in a memory, and obtaining an input channel index comprising a memory address location in which the weight and the IA are stored; and arranging the non-zero weight of each weight output channel according to a row size of an index matching unit (IMU) and matching the IA to the weight in the IMU comprising a buffer memory storing the input channel index.