NEURAL NETWORK PROCESSING DEVICE, COMPUTER PROGRAM, NEURAL NETWORK MANUFACTURING METHOD, NEURAL NETWORK DATA MANUFACTURING METHOD, NEURAL NETWORK USE DEVICE, AND NEURAL NETWORK DOWNSCALING METHOD

摘要

An objective of the present invention is to alleviate a degradation in neural network performance at the time of downscaling. A neural network processing device 10 according to the present disclosure is configured to execute: a process 22 of providing a plurality of instances of input data 40 to a neural network N1 in which a plurality of artificial neurons are connected and deriving vectors formed from a plurality of outputs outputted from the artificial neurons for each of the artificial neurons; and an integration process 23 of, on the basis of the vectors, selecting a plurality of artificial neurons which demonstrate identical or similar behavior, and integrating the selected artificial neurons.