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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 12, 2019
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, NZ;
Kenta Niwa, Tokyo, JP;
Willem Bastiaan Kleijn, Wellington, NZ;
NTT, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON, Wellington, NZ;
Abstract
Techniques for achieving a scalable DNN and a multi-task DNN, for example, are provided. A neural network system is a neural network system including a plurality of models. Each one of the plurality of models is a DNN including a plurality of layers. Some or all of the plurality of models include at least one layer for which some or all of model variables are equivalent or common (hereinafter referred to as a 'shared layer') and also include at least one layer for which the model variables are not equivalent nor common (hereinafter referred to as an “unshared layer”).