Dynamically Mixed Precision Machine Learning Systems and Methods

One or more tangible, non-transitory, machine-readable media comprising instructions that, when executed by a data processing system, enable the data processing system to perform operations to generate a system design for an integrated circuit device comprising:

• conversion circuitry to convert input feature data to block floating point format;
• upper/lower splitter circuitry to split the input feature data in the block floating point format into an upper component and a lower component;
• a processing element to use only the upper component of the feature data when operating in a lower-precision mode and use both the upper component of the feature data and the lower component of the feature data when operating in a higher-precision mode.