Custom Layer- Incorrent number of outputs

Technical Source
2 min readJun 24, 2021

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Hi,

I’m trying to create a custom intermediate layer that can split up data. When I use checkLayer to validate the functionality it throws the error: “Incorrect number of output arguments for ‘predict’ in Layer splitDataLayer. Expected to have 1, but instead it has 4.” although I’ve set the number of Outputs to 4 in the constructor.

classdef splitDataLayer < nnet.layer.Layer

methods
function obj = splitDataLayer(name)

obj.Name = name;
obj.numOutputs = 4;
obj.OutputNames = {'out1','out2','out3','out4'};
end

function [Z1, Z2, Z3, Z4] = predict(~, X)

Z1 = X(1, :, :, :);
Z2 = X(2, :, :, :);
Z3 = X(3, :, :, :);
Z4 = X(4, :, :, :);

end
function [dLdX] = backward(~,~,~,~,~,~,dLdZ1,dLdZ2,dLdZ3,dLdZ4,~)

dLdX = cat(1, dLdZ1,...
dLdZ2,...
dLdZ3,...
dLdZ4);

end
end
end

As can be seen above, both the number of outputs as well as the output matrix in the predict function have been set correctly. So I don’t know what could be wrong about the code and cause that error.

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Multi-input/Multi-output custom layers are supported from R2019a. From your error message I suspect you are on a older release.

Your layer looks good though, apart from obj.numOutputs = 4; which should be obj.NumOutputs = 4;

When I correct for that all the checkLayer tests pass in R2019a:

layer = splitDataLayer('test');
validInputSize = [4 5 20 4]; % Some arbitrary dimensions
checkLayer(layer,validInputSize,'ObservationDimension',4)
Running nnet.checklayer.TestCase
.......... .......... ....
Done nnet.checklayer.TestCase
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Test Summary:
24 Passed, 0 Failed, 0 Incomplete, 0 Skipped.
Time elapsed: 1.3818 seconds.

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