APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR LOCAL QUANTIZATION FOR CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORKS (CNNS)

摘要

An apparatus and method for local quantization for convolutional neural networks. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises : a convolutional neural network module comprising a neuron network structure to perform pattern recognition within an input image using a set of input image values; and a quantization module to quantize input image values to reduce processing requirements within one or more stages of the neuron network structure; the quantization module to perform quantization of each of a plurality of patches of the input image using a first quantization policy to generate a first matrix of quantized input data and to perform quantization of each of a plurality of kernel data using a second quantization policy to generate a second matrix of quantized kernel data.