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neural processing unit

neural processing unit noun: a specialized hardware circuit designed to accelerate machine learning applications.

Noun

neural processing unit (plural neural processing units)

  1. (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...2023, Arslan Munir, Joonho Kong, Mahmood Azhar Qureshi, Accelerators for Convolutional Neural Networks, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 43
    Synonyms:
    NPU

Synonyms of neural processing unit

Forms of neural processing unit

pluralneural processing units

Questions about neural processing unit

What does neural processing unit mean?
Neural processing unit means a specialized hardware circuit designed to accelerate machine learning applications.
What part of speech is neural processing unit?
Neural processing unit is a noun.
What is the plural of neural processing unit?
The plural of neural processing unit is neural processing units.

Words near neural processing unit in the dictionary

  1. neural nets
  2. neural network
  3. neural networks
  4. neural plate
  5. neural plates
  6. neural processing unit
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  8. neural spine
  9. neural spines
  10. neural tube
  11. neural tubes

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