Patent ID: 11880769
Assignee: ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 12:
13. The method of claim 10, wherein using the conductances of the programmable elements for computing an output of the neural network and updating the conductances of the programmable elements based on the output of the neural network includes:
processing a corresponding instance of input data in the neural network to compute an output from the neural network, the processing including computing internal values for nodes in the neural network using respective electrical currents from the programmable elements in the array of analog circuit elements, the electrical currents from each programmable element in the array of analog circuit elements being proportional to a conductance of that element;
determining an error value based on the output and an expected output associated with the corresponding instance of input data; and
backpropagating the error value through the neural network and making associated updates to conductances of the programmable elements in the array of analog circuit elements based at least in part on the error value.