Patents by Inventor Mike B. MacPherson
Mike B. MacPherson 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).
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Publication number: 20260127702Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2025Publication date: May 7, 2026Applicant: Intel CorporationInventors: 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
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Patent number: 12462328Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 13, 2023Date of Patent: November 4, 2025Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: 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
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Publication number: 20250299032Abstract: In an example, an apparatus comprises a compute engine comprising a high precision component and a low precision component; and logic, at least partially including hardware logic, to receive instructions in the compute engine; select at least one of the high precision component or the low precision component to execute the instructions; and apply a gate to at least one of the high precision component or the low precision component to execute the instructions. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2025Publication date: September 25, 2025Applicant: Intel CorporationInventors: Kamal Sinha, Balaji Vembu, Eriko Nurvitadhi, Nicolas C. Galoppo Von Borries, Rajkishore Barik, Tsung-Han Lin, Joydeep Ray, Ping T. Tang, Michael S. Strickland, Xiaoming Chen, Anbang Yao, Tatiana Shpeisman, Abhishek R. Appu, Altug Koker, Farshad Akhbari, Narayan Srinivasa, Feng Chen, Dukhwan Kim, Nadathur Rajagopalan Satish, John C. Weast, Mike B. MacPherson, Linda L. Hurd, Vasanth Ranganathan, Sanjeev Jahagirdar
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Patent number: 12373911Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 25, 2023Date of Patent: July 29, 2025Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: 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
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Patent number: 12367382Abstract: A mechanism is described for facilitating efficient training of neural networks at computing devices. A method of embodiments, as described herein, includes detecting one or more inputs for training of a neural network, and introducing randomness in floating point (FP) numbers to prevent overtraining of the neural network, where introducing randomness includes replacing less-significant low-order bits of operand and result values with new low-order bits during the training of the neural network.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2021Date of Patent: July 22, 2025Assignee: INTEL CORPORATIONInventors: Brian T. Lewis, Rajkishore Barik, Murali Sundaresan, Leonard Truong, Feng Chen, Xiaoming Chen, Mike B. Macpherson
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Patent number: 12346798Abstract: In an example, an apparatus comprises a compute engine comprising a high precision component and a low precision component; and logic, at least partially including hardware logic, to receive instructions in the compute engine; select at least one of the high precision component or the low precision component to execute the instructions; and apply a gate to at least one of the high precision component or the low precision component to execute the instructions. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2023Date of Patent: July 1, 2025Assignee: INTEL CORPORATIONInventors: Kamal Sinha, Balaji Vembu, Eriko Nurvitadhi, Nicolas C. Galoppo Von Borries, Rajkishore Barik, Tsung-Han Lin, Joydeep Ray, Ping T. Tang, Michael S. Strickland, Xiaoming Chen, Anbang Yao, Tatiana Shpeisman, Abhishek R. Appu, Altug Koker, Farshad Akhbari, Narayan Srinivasa, Feng Chen, Dukhwan Kim, Nadathur Rajagopalan Satish, John C. Weast, Mike B. MacPherson, Linda L. Hurd, Vasanth Ranganathan, Sanjeev Jahagirdar
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Publication number: 20250117874Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2024Publication date: April 10, 2025Applicant: Intel CorporationInventors: 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
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Publication number: 20250005703Abstract: 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.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2024Publication date: January 2, 2025Applicant: Intel CorporationInventors: Abhishek R. Appu, Altug Koker, Linda L. Hurd, Dukhwan Kim, Mike B. Macpherson, John C. Weast, Feng Chen, Farshad Akhbari, Narayan Srinivasa, Nadathur Rajagopalan Satish, Joydeep Ray, Ping T. Tang, Michael S. Strickland, Xiaoming Chen, Anbang Yao, Tatiana Shpeisman
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Patent number: 12148063Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 5, 2022Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: 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
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Publication number: 20240280987Abstract: 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.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2024Publication date: August 22, 2024Applicant: Intel CorporationInventors: Abhishek R. Appu, Altug Koker, Joydeep Ray, Balaji Vembu, John C. Weast, Mike B. Macpherson, Dukhwan Kim, Linda L. Hurd, Sanjeev Jahagirdar, Vasanth Ranganathan
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Patent number: 12056788Abstract: 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.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2022Date of Patent: August 6, 2024Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Abhishek R. Appu, Altug Koker, Linda L. Hurd, Dukhwan Kim, Mike B. Macpherson, John C. Weast, Feng Chen, Farshad Akhbari, Narayan Srinivasa, Nadathur Rajagopalan Satish, Joydeep Ray, Ping T. Tang, Michael S. Strickland, Xiaoming Chen, Anbang Yao, Tatiana Shpeisman
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Publication number: 20240256825Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2024Publication date: August 1, 2024Applicant: Intel CorporationInventors: 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
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Patent number: 12020135Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 26, 2021Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: 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
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Patent number: 12001209Abstract: 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.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2022Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Abhishek R. Appu, Altug Koker, Joydeep Ray, Balaji Vembu, John C. Weast, Mike B. Macpherson, Dukhwan Kim, Linda L. Hurd, Sanjeev Jahagirdar, Vasanth Ranganathan
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Patent number: 11948224Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 1, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: 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
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Patent number: 11934934Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 17, 2017Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: 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
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Patent number: 11900665Abstract: A graphics processor can include a processing cluster array including a plurality of processing clusters coupled with the plurality of memory controllers, each processing cluster of the plurality of processing clusters including a plurality of streaming multiprocessors, the processing cluster array configured for partitioning into a plurality of partitions. The plurality of partitions include a first partition including a first plurality of streaming multiprocessors configured to perform operations for a first neural network, The operations for the first neural network are isolated to the first partition. The plurality of partitions also include a second partition including a second plurality of streaming multiprocessors configured to perform operations for a second neural network. The operations for the second neural network are isolated to the second partition and protected from operations performed for the first neural network.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2023Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Barnan Das, Mayuresh M. Varerkar, Narayan Biswal, Stanley J. Baran, Gokcen Cilingir, Nilesh V. Shah, Archie Sharma, Sherine Abdelhak, Praneetha Kotha, Neelay Pandit, John C. Weast, Mike B. Macpherson, Dukhwan Kim, Linda L. Hurd, Abhishek R. Appu, Altug Koker, Joydeep Ray
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Publication number: 20240013337Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Applicant: Intel CorporationInventors: 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
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Publication number: 20240005136Abstract: In an example, an apparatus comprises a compute engine comprising a high precision component and a low precision component; and logic, at least partially including hardware logic, to receive instructions in the compute engine; select at least one of the high precision component or the low precision component to execute the instructions; and apply a gate to at least one of the high precision component or the low precision component to execute the instructions. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2023Publication date: January 4, 2024Applicant: Intel CorporationInventors: Kamal Sinha, Balaji Vembu, Eriko Nurvitadhi, Nicolas C. Galoppo Von Borries, Rajkishore Barik, Tsung-Han Lin, Joydeep Ray, Ping T. Tang, Michael S. Strickland, Xiaoming Chen, Anbang Yao, Tatiana Shpeisman, Abhishek R. Appu, Altug Koker, Farshad Akhbari, Narayan Srinivasa, Feng Chen, Dukhwan Kim, Nadathur Rajagopalan Satish, John C. Weast, Mike B. MacPherson, Linda L. Hurd, Vasanth Ranganathan, Sanjeev Jahagirdar
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Publication number: 20230401668Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2023Publication date: December 14, 2023Applicant: Intel CorporationInventors: 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