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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2020
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Kun Xu, Austin, TX (US);
Ron Diamant, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods are provided to improve the memory throughput for storing and reading intermediate data computed by layers of a neural network during a training process. A compression operation can be performed by removing the zeros from the intermediate data and storing locations of the zeros before storing the intermediate data in the memory for a forward pass of the training process. The compressed data can be read from the memory for a backward pass of the training process and de-compressed by inserting zeros based on the stored locations. Additionally, a transpose operation can be performed before compression as a first atomic operation, or after de-compression as a second atomic operation.