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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2026
Filed:
Oct. 14, 2020
Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm, SE;
Anders Berkeman, Lund, SE;
Sven Karlsson, Malmö, SE;
Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ), Stockholm, SE;
Abstract
Methods and apparatuses herein improve bottleneck-layer processing in neural networks. Example advantages include reducing the number of accesses needed to external memory, allowing processing to run in parallel in successive bottleneck layers, based on the use of partial convolutional results, and balancing the amount of 'local' memory used for storing convolutional results against the computational overhead of recomputing partial results. One aspect of the methods and apparatuses involves co-locating arithmetic and logical operators and temporary storage in the same data path, with the approach yielding both higher performance and greater energy efficiency in the implementation of bottleneck layers for neural network processing.