US Patent Issued to Google on Nov. 3 for "Efficient hardware accelerator configuration exploration" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,382, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Efficient hardware accelerator configuration exploration" was invented by Amir Yazdanbakhsh (San Jose, Calif.), Sergey Vladimir Levine (Berkeley, Calif.) and Aviral Kumar (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for training a surrogate neural network configured to determine a predicted performance measure of a hardware accelerator having a target hardware configuration on a target application. The trained instance of the surrogate neural network can be used...