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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2026
Filed:
Sep. 22, 2022
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Srijesh Sudarsanan, Waltham, MA (US);
Deepak Mathew, Acton, MA (US);
Marc Hoffman, Mansfield, MA (US);
Sundar Rajan Balasubramanian, Groton, MA (US);
Gerald Sweeney, Chelmsford, MA (US);
Mansi Jain, Littleton, MA (US);
James Lee, Northborough, MA (US);
Ankita Nayak, Milpitas, CA (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques and apparatus for quantized machine learning. A quantized input matrix is accessed at a layer of a neural network, and a first interim value is generated in an accumulator by performing matrix multiplication, using the accumulator, of the quantized input matrix and a quantized weight matrix associated with the layer of the neural network. The first interim value is normalized based at least in part on one or more leading sign bits of the first interim value, and the normalized first interim value is dequantized. A second interim value is generated by applying a rounded right-shift operation to the dequantized normalized first interim value, and activation data is generated by applying an activation function to the second interim value.