公开(公告)号：US20220383121A1

公开(公告)日：2022-12-01

申请号：US17330096

申请日：2021-05-25

Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.

Inventor： Tameesh Suri ,  Bor-Chau Juang ,  Nathaniel See ,  Bilal Shafi Sheikh ,  Naveed Zaman ,  Myron Shak ,  Sachin Dangayach ,  Udaykumar Diliprao Hanmante

IPC: G06N3/08 ,  G06N3/063

Abstract: A method of inducing sparsity for outputs of neural network layer may include receiving outputs from a layer of a neural network; partitioning the outputs into a plurality of partitions; identifying first partitions in the plurality of partitions that can be treated as having zero values; generating an encoding that identifies locations of the first partitions among remaining second partitions in the plurality of partitions; and sending the encoding and the second partitions to a subsequent layer in the neural network.