US Patent Issued to SambaNova Systems on Oct. 21 for "Autonomous gradient reduction in a reconfigurable processor system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,167, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to SambaNova Systems Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Autonomous gradient reduction in a reconfigurable processor system" was invented by Amitabh Menon (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Greg Dykema (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coarse-grained reconfigurable processor (CGRP) system for implementing data-parallel training of a neural network is presented. The CGRP system includes a set of coarse-grained reconfigurable units (CGRUs) in a first CGRP configured to implement at least a portion of the neural network, to determine first and second gradients, respectively, of first and second model p...