Garg Law Firm, PLLC
Very low precision floating point representation for deep learning acceleration
A specialized circuit is configured for floating point computations using numbers represented by a very low precision format (VLP format). The VLP format includes less than sixteen bits and is apportion into a sign bit, exponent bits (e), and mantissa bits (p). The configured specialized circuit is operated to store an approximation of a numeric value in the VLP format, where the approximation is represented as a function of a multiple of a fraction, where the fraction is an inverse of a number of discrete values that can be represented using only the mantissa bits.
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Silvia M. Kailash Ankur Daniel Jungwook Naigang
Mueller Gopalakrishnan Agrawal Brand Choi Wang