REDUCING POWER CONSUMPTION IN A NEURAL NETWORK ENVIRONMENT USING DATA MANAGEMENT

Patent №

US 11,487,342

Granted

2022-11-01

Filed 2021

Owner

MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC.

AI components

2

ml · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

17233379

Techniques to provide for improved (i.e., reduced) power consumption in an exemplary neural network (NN) and/or Deep Neural Network (DNN) environment using data management. Improved power consumption in the NN/DNN may be achieved by reducing a number of bit flips needed to process operands associated with one or more storages. Reducing the number bit flips associated with the NN/DNN may be achieved by multiplying an operand associated with a first storage with a plurality of individual operands associated with a plurality of kernels of the NN/DNN. The operand associated with the first storage may be neuron input data and the plurality of individual operands associated with the second storage may be weight values for multiplication with the neuron input data. The plurality of kernels may be arranged or sorted and subsequently processed in a manner that improves power consumption in the NN/DNN.

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Ownership

MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC.

assignment · 559500620

Assignors

AMBARDEKAR, AMOL ASHOK, MCBRIDE, CHAD BALLING, PETRE, GEORGE, CEDOLA, KENT D., WALL, LARRY MARVIN

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