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Please predict whether this patent is acceptable.PATENT ABSTRACT: An apparatus for deciding a simplification policy for a neural network is provided. The deciding apparatus has a plurality of artificial neurons, a receiving circuit, a memory, and a simplifying module. The plurality of artificial neurons are configured to form an original neural network. The receiving circuit receives a set of sample for training the original neural network. The memory is used for recording a plurality of learnable parameters for the original neural network. After the original neural network has been trained with the set of sample, the simplifying module abandons a part of neuron connections in the original neural network based on the learnable parameters recorded by the memory. The simplifying module accordingly decides the structure of a simplified neural network and a plurality of learnable parameters for the simplified neural network.