公开(公告)号：US20210216871A1

公开(公告)日：2021-07-15

申请号：US17256121

申请日：2018-09-07

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Yu Zhang ,  Huifeng LE ,  Richard CHUANG ,  Metz WERNER, Jr. ,  Heng Juen HAN ,  Ning ZHANG ,  Wenjian SHAO ,  Ke HE

IPC: G06N3/08 ,  G06N3/04

Abstract: Processes and systems are disclosed. The processes and systems are arranged to apply convolution for a CNN where the CNN is simplified using sparse techniques, quantization techniques or both sparse and quantization techniques. A location vector (LV) table is provided to record the coordinates of non-zero weights. A look up table is provided to recover the real weight value from the weight identification. Convolution is applied by retrieving the coordinates of the next non-zero weight and the associated real weight value and by accumulating the multiplication of the real weight value and the input value across the input activation plane.