公开(公告)号：EP3295383A1

公开(公告)日：2018-03-21

申请号：EP16719637

申请日：2016-04-14

Applicant: QUALCOMM INC

Inventor： LIN DEXU ,  BADIN MATTHEW ,  HOWARD DAVID EDWARD ,  DIJKMAN DANIEL HENDRICUS FRANCISCUS ,  TREMAINE MICHAEL COLIN ,  SARAH ANTHONY

IPC: G06N3/063

CPC classification number: G06N3/08 ,  G06N3/063 ,  G06N99/005

Abstract: A method of reducing computational complexity for a fixed point neural network operating in a system having a limited bit width in a multiplier-accumulator (MAC) includes reducing a number of bit shift operations when computing activations in the fixed point neural network. The method also includes balancing an amount of quantization error and an overflow error when computing activations in the fixed point neural network.