Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Mechanism to perform non-linear functions in a machine learning accelerator
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Application No.: US16378107Application Date: 2019-04-08
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Publication No.: US11640537B2Publication Date: 2023-05-02
- Inventor: Bharat Daga , Krishnakumar Nair , Pradeep Janedula , Aravind Babu Srinivasan , Bijoy Pazhanimala , Ambili Vengallur
- Applicant: Intel Corporation
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Jaffery Watson Mendonsa & Hamilton LLP
- Main IPC: G06N3/10
- IPC: G06N3/10

Abstract:
An apparatus to facilitate execution of non-linear functions operations is disclosed. The apparatus comprises accelerator circuitry including a compute grid having a plurality of processing elements to execute neural network computations, store values resulting from the neural network computations, and perform piecewise linear (PWL) approximations of one or more non-linear functions using the stored values as input data.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200320403A1 MECHANISM TO PERFORM NON-LINEAR FUNCTIONS IN A MACHINE LEARNING ACCELERATOR Public/Granted day:2020-10-08
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