Patents by Inventor Liwei Ma

Liwei Ma has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 12020135
    Abstract: A library of machine learning primitives is provided to optimize a machine learning model to improve the efficiency of inference operations. In one embodiment a trained convolutional neural network (CNN) model is processed into a trained CNN model via pruning, convolution window optimization, and quantization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Liwei Ma, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Barath Lakshmanan, Ben J. Ashbaugh, Jingyi Jin, Jeremy Bottleson, Mike B. Macpherson, Kevin Nealis, Dhawal Srivastava, Joydeep Ray, Ping T. Tang, Michael S. Strickland, Xiaoming Chen, Anbang Yao, Tatiana Shpeisman, Altug Koker, Abhishek R. Appu
  • Patent number: 11948224
    Abstract: One embodiment provides an apparatus comprising a memory stack including multiple memory dies and a parallel processor including a plurality of multiprocessors. Each multiprocessor has a single instruction, multiple thread (SIMT) architecture, the parallel processor coupled to the memory stack via one or more memory interfaces. At least one multiprocessor comprises a multiply-accumulate circuit to perform multiply-accumulate operations on matrix data in a stage of a neural network implementation to produce a result matrix comprising a plurality of matrix data elements at a first precision, precision tracking logic to evaluate metrics associated with the matrix data elements and indicate if an optimization is to be performed for representing data at a second stage of the neural network implementation, and a numerical transform unit to dynamically perform a numerical transform operation on the matrix data elements based on the indication to produce transformed matrix data elements at a second precision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Sara S. Baghsorkhi, Anbang Yao, Kevin Nealis, Xiaoming Chen, Altug Koker, Abhishek R. Appu, John C. Weast, Mike B. Macpherson, Dukhwan Kim, Linda L. Hurd, Ben J. Ashbaugh, Barath Lakshmanan, Liwei Ma, Joydeep Ray, Ping T. Tang, Michael S. Strickland
  • Patent number: 11934934
    Abstract: An apparatus to facilitate optimization of a convolutional neural network (CNN) is disclosed. The apparatus includes optimization logic to receive a CNN model having a list of instructions and including pruning logic to optimize the list of instructions by eliminating branches in the list of instructions that comprise a weight value of 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Liwei Ma, Elmoustapha Ould- Ahmed-Vall, Barath Lakshmanan, Ben J. Ashbaugh, Jingyi Jin, Jeremy Bottleson, Mike B. Macpherson, Kevin Nealis, Dhawal Srivastava, Joydeep Ray, Ping T. Tang, Michael S. Strickland, Xiaoming Chen, Anbang Yao, Tatiana Shpeisman, Altug Koker, Abhishek R. Appu
  • Publication number: 20240086683
    Abstract: An apparatus to facilitate workload scheduling is disclosed. The apparatus includes one or more clients, one or more processing units to processes workloads received from the one or more clients, including hardware resources and scheduling logic to schedule direct access of the hardware resources to the one or more clients to process the workloads.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Liwei Ma, Nadathur Rajagopalan Satish, Jeremy Bottleson, Farshad Akhbari, Eriko Nurvitadhi, Chandrasekaran Sakthivel, Barath Lakshmanan, Jingyi Jin, Justin E. Gottschlich, Michael Strickland
  • Publication number: 20240062414
    Abstract: A mechanism is described for facilitating training and deploying of pose regression in neural networks in autonomous machines. A method, as described herein, includes facilitating capturing, by an image capturing device of a computing device, one or more images of one or more objects, where the one or more images include one or more training images associated with a neural network. The method may further include continuously estimating, in real-time, a present orientation of the computing device, where estimating includes continuously detecting a real-time view field as viewed by the image capturing device and based on the one or more images. The method may further include applying pose regression relating to the image capturing device using the real-time view field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Liwei Ma
  • Publication number: 20240013337
    Abstract: A mechanism is described for detecting, at training time, information related to one or more tasks to be performed by the one or more processors according to a training dataset for a neural network, analyzing the information to determine one or more portions of hardware of a processor of the one or more processors that is configurable to support the one or more tasks, 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, and monitoring utilization of the hardware via a hardware unit of the graphics processor and, via a scheduler of the graphics processor, adjusting allocation of the one or more tasks to the one or more portions of the hardware based on the utilization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Abhishek R. Appu, Altug Koker, John C. Weast, Mike B. Macpherson, Linda L. Hurd, Sara S. Baghsorkhi, Justin E. Gottschlich, Prasoonkumar Surti, Chandrasekaran Sakthivel, Liwei Ma, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Kamal Sinha, Joydeep Ray, Balaji Vembu, Sanjeev Jahagirdar, Vasanth Ranganathan, Dukhwan Kim
  • Publication number: 20240004829
    Abstract: An integrated circuit (IC) package apparatus is disclosed. The IC package includes one or more processing units and a bridge, mounted below the one or more processing unit, including one or more arithmetic logic units (ALUs) to perform atomic operations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Altug Koker, Farshad Akhbari, Feng Chen, Dukhwan Kim, Narayan Srinivasa, Nadathur Rajagopalan Satish, Liwei Ma, Jeremy Bottleson, Eriko Nurvitadhi, Joydeep Ray, Ping T. Tang, Michael S. Strickland, Xiaoming Chen, Tatiana Shpeisman, Abhishek R. Appu
  • Publication number: 20230401668
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a general-purpose graphics processing unit comprising a dynamic precision floating-point unit including a control unit having precision tracking hardware logic to track an available number of bits of precision for computed data relative to a target precision, wherein the dynamic precision floating-point unit includes computational logic to output data at multiple precisions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Sara S. Baghsorkhi, Anbang Yao, Kevin Nealis, Xiaoming Chen, Altug Koker, Abhishek R. Appu, John C. Weast, Mike B. Macpherson, Dukhwan Kim, Linda L. Hurd, Ben J. Ashbaugh, Barath Lakshmanan, Liwei Ma, Joydeep Ray, Ping T. Tang, Michael S. Strickland
  • Patent number: 11809978
    Abstract: An apparatus to facilitate workload scheduling is disclosed. The apparatus includes one or more clients, one or more processing units to processes workloads received from the one or more clients, including hardware resources and scheduling logic to schedule direct access of the hardware resources to the one or more clients to process the workloads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Liwei Ma, Nadathur Rajagopalan Satish, Jeremy Bottleson, Farshad Akhbari, Eriko Nurvitadhi, Chandrasekaran Sakthivel, Barath Lakshmanan, Jingyi Jin, Justin E. Gottschlich, Michael Strickland
  • Patent number: 11810405
    Abstract: An autonomous vehicle is provided that includes one or more processors configured to provide a local compute manager to manage execution of compute workloads associated with the autonomous vehicle. The local compute manager can perform various compute operations, including receiving offload of compute operations from to other compute nodes and offloading compute operations to other compute notes, where the other compute nodes can be other autonomous vehicles. The local compute manager can also facilitate autonomous navigation functionality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Barath Lakshamanan, Linda L. Hurd, Ben J. Ashbaugh, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Liwei Ma, Jingyi Jin, Justin E. Gottschlich, Chandrasekaran Sakthivel, Michael S. Strickland, Brian T. Lewis, Lindsey Kuper, Altug Koker, Abhishek R. Appu, Prasoonkumar Surti, Joydeep Ray, Balaji Vembu, Javier S. Turek, Naila Farooqui
  • Patent number: 11810318
    Abstract: A mechanism is described for facilitating training and deploying of pose regression in neural networks in autonomous machines. A method, as described herein, includes facilitating capturing, by an image capturing device of a computing device, one or more images of one or more objects, where the one or more images include one or more training images associated with a neural network. The method may further include continuously estimating, in real-time, a present orientation of the computing device, where estimating includes continuously detecting a real-time view field as viewed by the image capturing device and based on the one or more images. The method may further include applying pose regression relating to the image capturing device using the real-time view field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Liwei Ma
  • Patent number: 11797837
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Altug Koker, Abhishek R. Appu, Kamal Sinha, Joydeep Ray, Balaji Vembu, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Sara S. Baghsorkhi, Anbang Yao, Kevin Nealis, Xiaoming Chen, John C. Weast, Justin E. Gottschlich, Prasoonkumar Surti, Chandrasekaran Sakthivel, Farshad Akhbari, Nadathur Rajagopalan Satish, Liwei Ma, Jeremy Bottleson, Eriko Nurvitadhi, Travis T. Schluessler, Ankur N. Shah, Jonathan Kennedy, Vasanth Ranganathan, Sanjeev Jahagirdar
  • Publication number: 20230334316
    Abstract: Described herein is a graphics processor comprising a memory device and a graphics processing cluster coupled with the memory device. The graphics processing cluster includes a plurality of graphics multiprocessors interconnected via a data interconnect. A graphics multiprocessor includes circuitry configured to load a modular neural network including a plurality of subnetworks, each of the plurality of subnetworks trained to perform a computer vision operation on a separate subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Altug Koker, Abhishek R. Appu, Kamal Sinha, Joydeep Ray, Balaji Vembu, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Sara S. Baghsorkhi, Anbang Yao, Kevin Nealis, Xiaoming Chen, John C. Weast, Justin E. Gottschlich, Prasoonkumar Surti, Chandrasekaran Sakthivel, Farshad Akhbari, Nadathur Rajagopalan Satish, Liwei Ma, Jeremy Bottleson, Eriko Nurvitadhi, Travis T. Schluessler, Ankur N. Shah, Jonathan Kennedy, Vasanth Ranganathan, Sanjeev Jahagirdar
  • Publication number: 20230315481
    Abstract: Described herein is a general-purpose graphics processing unit including a multiprocessor having a single instruction, multiple thread, SIMT, architecture. The multiprocessor comprises multiple sets of compute units each having a first logic unit configured to perform floating-point operations and a second logic unit configured to perform integer operations, with a thread of the floating-point instruction being executed in parallel with a thread of the integer instruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: ELMOUSTAPHA OULD-AHMED-VALL, BARATH LAKSHMANAN, TATIANA SHPEISMAN, Joydeep Ray, Ping T. Tang, Michael Strickland, Xiaoming Chen, Anbang Yao, Ben J. Ashbaugh, Linda L. Hurd, Liwei Ma
  • Patent number: 11748106
    Abstract: A mechanism is described for facilitating fast data operations and for facilitating a finite state machine for machine learning at autonomous machines. A method of embodiments, as described herein, includes detecting input data to be used in computational tasks by a computation component of a processor including a graphics processor. The method may further include determining one or more frequently-used data values (FDVs) from the data, and pushing the one or more frequent data values to bypass the computational tasks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Liwei Ma, Nadathur Rajagopalan Satish, Jeremy Bottleson, Farshad Akhbari, Eriko Nurvitadhi, Abhishek R. Appu, Altug Koker, Kamal Sinha, Joydeep Ray, Balaji Vembu, Vasanth Ranganathan, Sanjeev Jahagirdar
  • Patent number: 11748298
    Abstract: An integrated circuit (IC) package apparatus is disclosed. The IC package includes one or more processing units and a bridge, mounted below the one or more processing unit, including one or more arithmetic logic units (ALUs) to perform atomic operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Altug Koker, Farshad Akhbari, Feng Chen, Dukhwan Kim, Narayan Srinivasa, Nadathur Rajagopalan Satish, Liwei Ma, Jeremy Bottleson, Eriko Nurvitadhi, Joydeep Ray, Ping T. Tang, Michael S. Strickland, Xiaoming Chen, Tatiana Shpeisman, Abhishek R. Appu
  • Patent number: 11748841
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Abhishek R. Appu, Altug Koker, John C. Weast, Mike B. Macpherson, Linda L. Hurd, Sara S. Baghsorkhi, Justin E. Gottschlich, Prasoonkumar Surti, Chandrasekaran Sakthivel, Liwei Ma, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Kamal Sinha, Joydeep Ray, Balaji Vembu, Sanjeev Jahagirdar, Vasanth Ranganathan, Dukhwan Kim
  • Patent number: 11727246
    Abstract: Embodiments provide systems and methods which facilitate optimization of a convolutional neural network (CNN). One embodiment provides for a non-transitory machine-readable medium storing instructions that cause one or more processors to perform operations comprising processing a trained convolutional neural network (CNN) to generate a processed CNN, the trained CNN having weights in a floating-point format. Processing the trained CNN includes quantizing the weights in the floating-point format to generate weights in an integer format. Quantizing the weights includes generating a quantization table to enable non-uniform quantization of the weights and quantizing the weights from the floating-point format to the integer format using the quantization table. The operations additionally comprise performing an inference operation utilizing the processed CNN with the integer format weights.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Liwei Ma, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Barath Lakshmanan, Ben J. Ashbaugh, Jingyi Jin, Jeremy Bottleson, Mike B. Macpherson, Kevin Nealis, Dhawal Srivastava, Joydeep Ray, Ping T. Tang, Michael S. Strickland, Xiaoming Chen, Anbang Yao, Tatiana Shpeisman, Altug Koker, Abhishek R. Appu
  • Patent number: 11615284
    Abstract: A mechanism is described for facilitating transferring of human experiences to autonomous machines. A method of embodiments, as described herein, includes facilitating sensing, by one or more sensors, one or more inputs relating to a user, and evaluating the one or more inputs to capture one or more behavior traits of the user. The method may further include training a neural network model based on the one or more behavior traits, and applying the trained neural network model to a computing device to facilitate the computing device to adopt the one or more behavior traits to behave as the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Liwei Ma, Jiqiang Song, Hong Zhang
  • Publication number: 20230061331
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a multi-chip module accelerator usable to execute tensor data processing operations a multi-chip module. The multi-chip module may include a memory stack including multiple memory dies and parallel processor circuitry communicatively coupled to the memory stack. The parallel processor circuitry may include multiprocessor cores to execute matrix multiplication and accumulate operations. The matrix multiplication and accumulate operations may include floating-point operations that are configurable to include two-dimensional matrix multiply and accumulate operations involving inputs that have differing floating-point precisions. The floating-point operations may include a first operation at a first precision and a second operation at a second precision. The first operation may include a multiply having at least one 16-bit floating-point input and the second operation may include an accumulate having a 32-bit floating-point input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Sara S. Baghsorkhi, Anbang Yao, Kevin Nealis, Xiaoming Chen, Altug Koker, Abhishek R. Appu, John C. Weast, Mike B. Macpherson, Dukhwan Kim, Linda L. Hurd, Ben J. Ashbaugh, Barath Lakshmanan, Liwei Ma, Joydeep Ray, Ping T. Tang, Michael S. Strickland