Information processing apparatus, information processing method and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium

An information processing method performed by an information processing apparatus for performing a graph convolution operation on a graph, the method comprising:

• acquiring from a list comprising weights of nodes of the graph and connection destinations of those nodes and for which information of the portion, in an adjacency matrix representing connection relationships of nodes in the graph, where values representing the connection relationships are non-zero has been extracted, a weight and a connection destination of a node of the graph;
• acquiring, based on the connection destination, data to be inputted into a computing unit from among computation target data;
• and
• using the computing unit to perform an operation using the acquired data and the acquired weight of node.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a computer program for causing a computer operable to perform a graph convolution operation on a graph to function as:

• a first acquisition unit configured to acquire from a list comprising weights of nodes of the graph and connection destinations of those nodes and for which information of the portion, in an adjacency matrix representing connection relationships of nodes in the graph, where values representing the connection relationships are non-zero has been extracted, a weight and a connection destination of a node of the graph;
• a second acquisition unit configured to acquire, based on the connection destination, data to be inputted into a computing unit from among computation target data;
• and
• a computation unit configured to use the computing unit to perform an operation using the data acquired by the second acquisition unit and the weight of node acquired by the first acquisition unit.