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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 24, 2024
Filed:
Dec. 10, 2020
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Manu Mathew, Bangalore, IN;
Kumar Desappan, Bangalore, IN;
Soyeb Noormohammed Nagori, Bangalore, IN;
Debapriya Maji, Bangalore, IN;
Pramod Kumar Swami, Bangalore, IN;
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED, Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
In described examples of a method for quantizing data for a convolutional neural network (CNN) is provided. A set of data is received and quantized the using a power-of-2 parametric activation (PACT2) function. The PACT2 function arranges the set of data as a histogram and discards a portion of the data corresponding to a tail of the histogram to form a remaining set of data. A clipping value is determined by expanding the remaining set of data to a nearest power of two value. The set of data is then quantized using the clipping value. With PACT2, a model can be quantized either using post training quantization or using quantization aware training. PACT2 helps a quantized model to achieve close accuracy compared to the corresponding floating-point model.