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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 2024
Filed:
Jan. 23, 2019
Applicant:
Nvidia Corp., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
Ching-En Lee, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Yakun Shao, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Angshuman Parashar, Northborough, MA (US);
Joel Emer, Acton, MA (US);
Stephen W. Keckler, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
NVIDIA CORP., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06N 3/08 (2023.01); G06N 3/04 (2023.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06N 3/08 (2013.01); G06N 3/04 (2013.01);
Abstract
A sparse convolutional neural network accelerator system that dynamically and efficiently identifies fine-grained parallelism in sparse convolution operations. The system determines matching pairs of non-zero input activations and weights from the compacted input activation and weight arrays utilizing a scalable, dynamic parallelism discovery unit (PDU) that performs a parallel search on the input activation array and the weight array to identify reducible input activation and weight pairs.