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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 12, 2024
Filed:
Feb. 25, 2021
Applicant:
Alibab Group Holding Limited, Grand Cayman, KY;
Inventors:
Fei Xue, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Fei Sun, San Jose, CA (US);
Yangjie Zhou, Shanghai, CN;
Lide Duan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Hongzhong Zheng, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Assignee:
Alibaba Group Holding Limited, Grand Cayman, KY;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0613 (2013.01); G06F 3/0659 (2013.01); G06F 3/0673 (2013.01);
Abstract
Zero skipping sparsity techniques for reduced data movement between memory and accelerators and reduced computational workload of accelerators. The techniques include detection of zero and near-zero values on the memory. The non-zero values are transferred to the accelerator for computation. The zero and near-zero values are written back within the memory as zero values.