Information processing apparatus, information processing system, computer-readable recording medium, and information processing method

An information processing apparatus comprising:

• a receiving section that receives, from the outside, data of a bottleneck portion of a first neural network which constitutes a part of an overall neural network and includes the bottleneck portion in an output portion, the bottleneck portion being a portion where the amount of transmission data is minimum or extremely small in the overall neural network;
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• a processing section that processes the data of the bottleneck portion of the first neural network received by the receiving section using a second neural network constituting the remainder of the overall neural network.

A computer-readable recording medium that records a program for causing a computer to function as:

• a processing section that processes data using a first neural network which constitutes a part of an overall neural network and includes, in an output portion, a bottleneck portion where the amount of transmission data is minimum or extremely small in the overall neural network;
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• a transmission section that transmits data of the bottleneck portion of the first neural network, obtained by the processing performed by the processing section, to the outside.

An information processing method comprising:

• by a second information processing apparatus, preparing, according to a capability of a first information processing apparatus, a first neural network that constitutes a part of an overall neural network and includes, in an output portion, a bottleneck portion where the amount of transmission data is minimum or extremely small in the overall neural network;
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• by the second information processing apparatus, transmitting the prepared first neural network to the first information processing apparatus.