NetMapThreadOperator [mapnet]
represents a net in which mapnet is mapped over one or more inputs to give one or more outputs.
NetMapThreadOperator [mapnet,n]
represents a net in which mapnet is mapped over its inputs at depth n.
NetMapThreadOperator [mapnet,<|"inputi"n1,"input2"n2,…|>]
represents a net in which mapnet is mapped over the input named inputi at depth ni, and all other inputs are replicated.
NetMapThreadOperator
NetMapThreadOperator [mapnet]
represents a net in which mapnet is mapped over one or more inputs to give one or more outputs.
NetMapThreadOperator [mapnet,n]
represents a net in which mapnet is mapped over its inputs at depth n.
NetMapThreadOperator [mapnet,<|"inputi"n1,"input2"n2,…|>]
represents a net in which mapnet is mapped over the input named inputi at depth ni, and all other inputs are replicated.
Details and Options
- NetMapThreadOperator [mapnet] represents a net that takes the same number of arrays as mapnet and produces the same number of arrays as mapnet, but repeatedly applies mapnet to corresponding elements of the inputs.
- NetMapThreadOperator [mapnet] effectively maps mapnet simultaneously over the first level of each of its inputs. These inputs must have the same length.
- NetMapThreadOperator [mapnet] is equivalent to NetMapThreadOperator [mapnet,1].
- NetMapThreadOperator [mapnet,n] effectively applies mapnet at level n to its inputs, and hence expects n additional dimensions over the inputs and outputs of mapnet.
- Therefore, if mapnet takes an input of rank i and produces an output of rank o, NetMapThreadOperator [mapnet,n] takes an input of rank n+i and produces an output of rank n+o.
- NetMapThreadOperator [mapnet,{"input1"n1,…,"inputk"nk}] effectively maps mapnet at level n=Max [{n1,…,nk}] by replicating those inputs with ni<n as appropriate.
- Specifying "inputi"->0 is equivalent to omitting the input from the level specification and means that the unmodified input is supplied to each mapped application of subnet unchanged.
- NetMapThreadOperator [net] can be seen as allowing a form of weight sharing between multiple copies of net, one for each element that is being mapped.
- NetExtract can be used to extract mapnet from a NetMapThreadOperator [mapnet] object.
- NetMapThreadOperator [net,"inputi"shape] allows the shape of the individual inputs to be specified. Possible forms for shape are:
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d a vector of size d{d1,d2} a matrix of size d1×d2{d1,d2,…} an array of shape d1×d2×…{"Varying",d2,d3,…} an array whose first dimension is variable and remaining dimensions are d2×d3×…
- The following training parameter can be included:
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- NetExtract allows access to the forward and reverse nets via "Net".
- Options [NetMapThreadOperator] gives the list of default options to construct the operator. Options [NetMapThreadOperator[…]] gives the list of default options to evaluate the operator on some data.
- Information [NetMapThreadOperator[…]] gives a report about the operator.
- Information [NetMapThreadOperator[…],prop] gives the value of the property prop of NetMapThreadOperator […]. Possible properties are the same as for NetGraph .
Examples
Basic Examples (3)
Map a MeanAbsoluteLossLayer over corresponding inputs and targets to produce a vector of losses:
Map a MeanAbsoluteLossLayer at level 2 of input and target matrices to produce a result matrix:
Map a MeanAbsoluteLossLayer at level 1 of the input vector only, replicating the target vector:
Related Guides
Text
Wolfram Research (2019), NetMapThreadOperator, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/NetMapThreadOperator.html (updated 2020).
CMS
Wolfram Language. 2019. "NetMapThreadOperator." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. Last Modified 2020. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/NetMapThreadOperator.html.
APA
Wolfram Language. (2019). NetMapThreadOperator. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/NetMapThreadOperator.html
BibTeX
@misc{reference.wolfram_2025_netmapthreadoperator, author="Wolfram Research", title="{NetMapThreadOperator}", year="2020", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/NetMapThreadOperator.html}", note=[Accessed: 05-December-2025]}
BibLaTeX
@online{reference.wolfram_2025_netmapthreadoperator, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={NetMapThreadOperator}, year={2020}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/NetMapThreadOperator.html}, note=[Accessed: 05-December-2025]}