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neural processing units

neural processing units is the plural of neural processing unit.

Meaning of neural processing unit

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

Questions about neural processing units

What is neural processing units the plural of?
Neural processing units is the plural of neural processing unit.

Words near neural processing units in the dictionary

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

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