Patent ID: 11915118
Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A method of processing layers in a neural network, the method comprising:
obtaining a plurality of Input Feature Map (IFM) tiles of at least one IFM tensor and a plurality of kernel tiles of at least one kernel tensor from a memory;
performing, by an accelerator, a convolutional operation on the plurality of IFM tiles and the plurality of kernel tiles based on IFM sparsity and kernel sparsity;
generating, by the accelerator, a plurality of partial Output Feature Map (OFM) tiles; and
generating, by the accelerator, a plurality of OFM tiles corresponding to the plurality of IFM tiles using the plurality of partial OFM tiles.