Alibaba Group Holding Limited
MULTI-SIZE CONVOLUTIONAL LAYER BACKGROUND

Abstract:

Systems and methods for improved convolutional layers for neural networks are disclosed. An improved convolutional layer can obtain at least two input feature maps of differing channel sizes. The improved convolutional layer can generate an output feature map for each one of the at least two input feature maps. Each input feature map can be applied to a convolutional sub-layer to generate an intermediate feature map. For each intermediate feature map, versions of the remaining intermediate feature maps can be resized to match the channel size of the intermediate feature map. For each intermediate feature map, an output feature map can be generated by combining the intermediate feature map and the corresponding resized versions of the remaining intermediate feature maps.