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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 26, 2024
Filed:
Mar. 01, 2021
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, CN;
Li Jiang, Shanghai, CN;
Chaoqun Chu, Shanghai, CN;
SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY, Shanghai, CN;
Abstract
The present disclosure relates to a pruning method based on a crossbar architecture and a system thereof, wherein the method comprises the steps of: carrying out structured pruning on a weight matrix to be processed at the current layer of a neural network without considering architecture factors to obtain a first weight matrix, wherein the weight matrix is the weight matrix of the neural network; determining the pruning scheme according to the size of the first weight matrix and the size of the crossbar, wherein the pruning scheme comprises: block-based structured pruning, crossbar row pruning and crossbar column pruning; and pruning the first weight matrix according to the pruning scheme to obtain a second weight matrix, wherein the second weight matrix is mapped to the crossbar array in an accelerator, and the neural network is accelerated by the accelerator.