Patent ID: 11893490
Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 20:
21. A general-purpose graphics processor comprising:
a system interface; and
a machine learning accelerator circuitry coupled with the system interface, the machine learning accelerator circuitry configured to:
convert first tensor data associated with a first layer of a neural network model to generate first converted tensor data, the first tensor data converted from a first datatype to a second datatype, wherein the second datatype is an 8-bit datatype;
generate a first output tensor that is associated with the first layer of the neural network model, the first output tensor generated via the general-purpose graphics processor based on the first converted tensor data and a first scale factor, the first scale factor determined for the first tensor data;
convert second tensor data associated with a second layer of the neural network model to generate second converted tensor data, the second tensor data converted from the first datatype to the second datatype; and
generate a second output tensor that is associated with the second layer of the neural network model, the second output tensor generated via the general-purpose graphics processor based on the second converted tensor data and a second scale factor, the second scale factor determined for the second tensor data.