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Re:New chip reduces neural networks’ power consumption by darknoon on Thursday February 15, 2018 @03:01PM (#16387067)
Uses less power to do less useful work (binary weights)…
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Re:New chip reduces neural networks’ power consumption by phkahler on Thursday February 15, 2018 @08:08PM (#16389172)
Right, they need to compare it to the same algorithm running on a conventional computer (or GPU or whatever they compared to). Math like that can run faster and more efficiently on a regular CPU too.
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Re:New chip reduces neural networks’ power consumption by dietr1ch on Thursday February 15, 2018 @11:36PM (#16389892)
Well, using 16bit floats works fine and allows to use more layers, but might be too little.

I'd be interested on a more conservative change using a single byte or maybe 4 bits.

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