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neural processing unit en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (qualifier:machine learning) A specialized hardware circuit designed to accelerate machine learning applications.
    • In addition, the large weight size inevitably causes latency, power, and energy overhead when transferring the weight data between the storage/memory and the processing units, such as central processing units (CPUs), graphic processing units (GPUs), neural processing units (NPUs), or accelerators, which are not desirable for resource-constrained edge devices. 2023, Arslan Munir, Joonho Kong, Mahmood Azhar Qureshi, Accelerators for Convolutional Neural Networks, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 43:

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Synonyms

NPU

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