Patent ID: 11886980
Assignee: NVIDIA CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 18:
19. A processor comprising:
a tensor core configured to implement at least one layer of a neural network model, wherein the at least one layer processes a plurality of input values comprising image or sound data by:
receiving the plurality of input values, wherein each input value in the plurality of input values is represented as a sign s, a quotient component eq, and a remainder component er, such that each input value, v
    =
    
      s
      ⁢
      
        
      
      ⁢
      
        2
        
          (
          
            
              e
              q
            
            +
            
              
                e
                r
              
              n
            
          
          )
        
      
    
  
  ,, where n is an integer; and

generating a set of partial sums by sorting the quotient component for each input value according to the remainder component for the input value; and
summing the partial sums in the set of partial sums to produce a result that is a sum of the plurality of input values, wherein the result corresponds to an output of the neural network model that encodes at least one of classification, object detection, segmentation, clustering, or regression for the plurality of input values.