CONSTRAINT-BASED DYNAMIC QUANTIZATION ADJUSTMENT FOR FIXED-POINT PROCESSING

Patent №

US 11,630,982

Granted

2023-04-18

Filed 2018

Owner

CADENCE DESIGN SYSTEMS, INC.

Lab

AI components

3

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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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