Hardware approximations for Softmax and LayerNorm preserve exact normalization guarantees and deliver up to 14x area reduction in 28nm silicon with negligible accuracy loss on GLUE, SQuAD, and perplexity.
SoftmAP: Software-Hardware Co-design for Integer- Only Softmax on Associative Processors
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Hardware-Efficient Softmax and Layer Normalization with Guaranteed Normalization for Edge Devices
Hardware approximations for Softmax and LayerNorm preserve exact normalization guarantees and deliver up to 14x area reduction in 28nm silicon with negligible accuracy loss on GLUE, SQuAD, and perplexity.