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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 14, 2023
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Martin-Thomas Grymel, Leixlip, IE;
David Bernard, Kilcullen, IE;
Niall Hanrahan, Galway, IE;
Martin Power, Dublin, IE;
Kevin Brady, Newry, GB;
Gary Baugh, Bray, IE;
Cormac Brick, San Francisco, CA (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for sparse tensor storage for neural network accelerators. An example apparatus includes sparsity map generating circuitry to generate a sparsity map corresponding to a tensor, the sparsity map to indicate whether a data point of the tensor is zero, static storage controlling circuitry to divide the tensor into one or more storage elements, and a compressor to perform a first compression of the one or more storage elements to generate one or more compressed storage elements, the first compression to remove zero points of the one or more storage elements based on the sparsity map and perform a second compression of the one or more compressed storage elements, the second compression to store the one or more compressed storage elements contiguously in memory.