18681755. FORWARD PROPAGATION APPARATUS, LEARNING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM (NEC Corporation)

FORWARD PROPAGATION APPARATUS, LEARNING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM

Organization Name

NEC Corporation

Inventor(s)

Youki Sada of Tokyo JP

FORWARD PROPAGATION APPARATUS, LEARNING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18681755 titled 'FORWARD PROPAGATION APPARATUS, LEARNING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM

Original Abstract Submitted

A forward propagation apparatus is a forward propagation apparatus for a neural network, including: a mask generation unit that generates a binary mask; and a layer execution unit that performs an operation for a sparse convolutional layer according to a value at each coordinate of the binary mask, in which the mask generation unit: generates heat maps by performing an operation for a convolutional layer on an input feature map; generates a composite heat map obtained by combining the heat maps, into one heat map by summing up values of heat maps on a coordinate-by-coordinate basis; and generates the binary mask by binarizing a value at each coordinate of the composite heat map by using a predetermined threshold.