Abstract: Methods and apparatus relating to autonomous vehicle neural network optimization techniques are described. In an embodiment, the difference between a first training dataset to be used for a neural network and a second training dataset to be used for the neural network is detected. The second training dataset is authenticated in response to the detection of the difference. The neural network is used to assist in an autonomous vehicle/driving. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.

Abstract: An apparatus to facilitate compute optimization is disclosed. The apparatus includes one or more processing units to provide a first set of shader operations associated with a shader stage of a graphics pipeline, a scheduler to schedule shader threads for processing, and a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) dynamically configured to provide a second set of shader operations associated with the shader stage of the graphics pipeline.

Abstract: One embodiment provides for a graphics processing unit (GPU) to accelerate machine learning operations, the GPU comprising an instruction cache to store a first instruction and a second instruction, the first instruction to cause the GPU to perform a floating-point operation, including a multi-dimensional floating-point operation, and the second instruction to cause the GPU to perform an integer operation; and a general-purpose graphics compute unit having a single instruction, multiple thread architecture, the general-purpose graphics compute unit to concurrently execute the first instruction and the second instruction.

Abstract: In an example, an apparatus comprises a plurality of execution units, and a first general register file (GRF) communicatively couple to the plurality of execution units, wherein the first GRF is shared by the plurality of execution units. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.

Abstract: A mechanism is described for facilitating inference coordination and processing utilization for machine learning. A method of embodiments, as described herein, includes limiting execution of workloads for the respective contexts of a plurality of contexts to a specified subset of a plurality of processing resources of a processing system according to physical resource slices of the processing system that are associated with the respective contexts of the plurality of contexts.

Abstract: A mechanism is described for facilitating barriers and synchronization for machine learning at autonomous machines. A method of embodiments, as described herein, includes detecting thread groups relating to machine learning associated with one or more processing devices. The method may further include facilitating barrier synchronization of the thread groups across multiple dies such that each thread in a thread group is scheduled across a set of compute elements associated with the multiple dies, where each die represents a processing device of the one or more processing devices, the processing device including a graphics processor.

Abstract: An embodiment of a graphics apparatus may include a context engine to determine contextual information, a recommendation engine communicatively coupled to the context engine to determine a recommendation based on the contextual information, and a configuration engine communicatively coupled to the recommendation engine to adjust a configuration of a graphics operation based on the recommendation. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.

Abstract: Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, a processor receives an incoming data stream that includes alpha channel data, and a memory stores an application programming interface (API). The API is to route the alpha channel data to a fixed point blending unit to perform one or more blending operations using fixed point representation of the alpha channel data. The API is further to route the incoming data stream to a floating point blending unit to perform operations involving floating point representation of the incoming data.

Abstract: A mechanism is described for facilitating recognition, reidentification, and security in machine learning at autonomous machines. A method of embodiments, as described herein, includes facilitating a camera to detect one or more objects within a physical vicinity, the one or more objects including a person, and the physical vicinity including a house, where detecting includes capturing one or more images of one or more portions of a body of the person. The method may further include extracting body features based on the one or more portions of the body, comparing the extracted body features with feature vectors stored at a database, and building a classification model based on the extracted body features over a period of time to facilitate recognition or reidentification of the person independent of facial recognition of the person.

Abstract: Embodiments provide mechanisms to facilitate compute operations for deep neural networks. One embodiment comprises a graphics processing unit comprising one or more multiprocessors, at least one of the one or more multiprocessors including a register file to store a plurality of different types of operands and a plurality of processing cores. The plurality of processing cores includes a first set of processing cores of a first type and a second set of processing cores of a second type. The first set of processing cores are associated with a first memory channel and the second set of processing cores are associated with a second memory channel.

Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide a graphics processor that can perform a variety of mixed and multiple precision instructions and operations. One embodiment provides a streaming multiprocessor that can concurrently execute multiple thread groups, wherein the streaming multiprocessor includes a single instruction, multiple thread (SIMT) architecture and the streaming multiprocessor is to execute multiple threads for each of multiple instructions. The streaming multiprocessor can perform concurrent integer and floating-point operations and includes a mixed precision core to perform operations at multiple or mixed precisions and dynamic ranges.

Abstract: One embodiment provides for a general-purpose graphics processing unit comprising a streaming multiprocessor having a single instruction, multiple thread (SIMT) architecture including hardware multithreading. The streaming multiprocessor comprises multiple processing blocks including multiple processing cores. The processing cores include independent integer and floating-point data paths that are configurable to concurrently execute multiple independent instructions. A memory is coupled with the multiple processing blocks.

Abstract: A mechanism is described for facilitating inference coordination and processing utilization for machine learning at autonomous machines. A method of embodiments, as described herein, includes detecting, at training time, information relating to one or more tasks to be performed according to a training dataset relating to a processor including a graphics processor. The method may further include analyzing the information to determine one or more portions of hardware relating to the processor capable of supporting the one or more tasks, and configuring the hardware to pre-select the one or more portions to perform the one or more tasks, while other portions of the hardware remain available for other tasks.

Abstract: A system includes multiple processors and a power controller. Each processor includes a throttling engine. The power controller is to, in response to a determination that a first power consumption level exceeds a first threshold, assert a critical signal to each throttling engine of the plurality of processors. Further, for each processor, the throttling engine of the processor is to perform a sequence of multiple throttling states while the critical signal is asserted by the power controller, where the sequence of multiple throttling states is performed according to a state machine of the throttling engine. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Abstract: An apparatus to facilitate compute optimization is disclosed. The apparatus includes a mixed precision core including mixed-precision execution circuitry to execute one or more of the mixed-precision instructions to perform a mixed-precision dot-product operation comprising to perform a set of multiply and accumulate operations.

Abstract: One embodiment provides for a graphics processing unit (GPU) to accelerate machine learning operations, the GPU comprising an instruction cache to store a first instruction and a second instruction, the first instruction to cause the GPU to perform a floating-point operation, including a multi-dimensional floating-point operation, and the second instruction to cause the GPU to perform an integer operation; and a general-purpose graphics compute unit having a single instruction, multiple thread (SIMT) architecture, the general-purpose graphics compute unit to simultaneously execute the first instruction and the second instruction, wherein the integer operation corresponds to a memory address calculation.

Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide a graphics processor that can perform a variety of mixed and multiple precision instructions and operations. One embodiment provides a streaming multiprocessor that can concurrently execute multiple thread groups, wherein the streaming multiprocessor includes a single instruction, multiple thread (SIMT) architecture and the streaming multiprocessor is to execute multiple threads for each of multiple instructions. The streaming multiprocessor can perform concurrent integer and floating-point operations and includes a mixed precision core to perform operations at multiple or mixed precisions and dynamic ranges.

Abstract: In an example, an apparatus comprises a plurality of execution units comprising at least a first type of execution unit and a second type of execution unit and logic, at least partially including hardware logic, to analyze a workload and assign the workload to one of the first type of execution unit or the second type of execution unit. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.

Abstract: A system includes multiple processors and a power controller. Each processor includes a throttling engine. The power controller is to, in response to a determination that a first power consumption level exceeds a first threshold, assert a critical signal to each throttling engine of the plurality of processors. Further, for each processor, the throttling engine of the processor is to perform a sequence of multiple throttling states while the critical signal is asserted by the power controller, where the sequence of multiple throttling states is performed according to a state machine of the throttling engine. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Abstract: One or more examples include an apparatus having a hardware barrier logic to detect thread groups relating to machine learning operations and facilitate barrier synchronization of the thread groups across multiple dies representing multiple processors, such that data processing using the threads groups across the multiple processors is synchronized and stall-free.