# chainer.functions.average_pooling_2d¶

chainer.functions.average_pooling_2d(x, ksize, stride=None, pad=0)[source]

Spatial average pooling function.

This function acts similarly to convolution_2d(), but it computes the average of input spatial patch for each channel without any parameter instead of computing the inner products.

Parameters
• x (Variable) – Input variable.

• ksize (int or pair of ints) – Size of pooling window. ksize=k and ksize=(k, k) are equivalent.

• stride (int or pair of ints or None) – Stride of pooling applications. stride=s and stride=(s, s) are equivalent. If None is specified, then it uses same stride as the pooling window size.

• pad (int or pair of ints) – Spatial padding width for the input array. pad=p and pad=(p, p) are equivalent.

Returns

Output variable.

Return type

Variable

Note

This function currently does not support cover_all mode as max_pooling_2d(). Average pooling runs in non-cover-all mode.

Note

The values in the padded region is treated as 0, leading the averages biased towards zero. To obtain unbiased averages, use average_pooling_nd() with pad_value=None.