Patent ID: 11972349
Assignee: META PLATFORMS, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 11:
12. The system of claim 10, wherein:
the filter tensor comprises one or more three-dimensional (3D) filter tensors of weights, each comprising a filter depth dimension, a filter width dimension, and a filter height dimension;
the size of the filter tensor in the filter depth dimension is equal to the size of the first dimension of the input tensor;
the selected one or more dimensions of the filter tensor comprise one or more of the filter width dimension and the filter height dimension; and
when executed by the one or more of the processors, the instructions are further operable to cause the system to:
store the weights in a weight buffer such that weights with different values in a first one of the selected one or more dimensions of the filter tensor are stored contiguously in the weight buffer; and
in response to a determination that the size is less than the processing capacity of each of the one or more subarrays of computation units in the tensor processor, store the activation elements in the input tensor in an activation memory such that activation elements with different values in the second dimension are stored contiguously in the activation memory.