Patent №
US 11,630,982
Granted
2023-04-18
Filed 2018
Owner
CADENCE DESIGN SYSTEMS, INC.
Lab
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AI components
3
ml · kr · hardware
Assignment
Recorded
Dataset
AIPD
2023_r1 edition
Application
16131402
Aspects of the present disclosure address systems and methods for fixed-point quantization using a dynamic quantization level adjustment scheme. Consistent with some embodiments, a method comprises accessing a neural network comprising floating-point representations of filter weights corresponding to one or more convolution layers. The method further includes determining a peak value of interest from the filter weights and determining a quantization level for the filter weights based on a number of bits in a quantization scheme. The method further includes dynamically adjusting the quantization level based on one or more constraints. The method further includes determining a quantization scale of the filter weights based on the peak value of interest and the adjusted quantization level. The method further includes quantizing the floating-point representations of the filter weights using the quantization scale to generate fixed-point representations of the filter weights.
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Ownership
CADENCE DESIGN SYSTEMS, INC.
assignment · 468760445
Assignors
HSU, MING KAI, PARIKH, SANDIP
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