IMAGE PROCESSING NEURAL NETWORKS WITH DYNAMIC FILTER ACTIVATION

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for processing images using neural networks. One of the methods includes receiving a network input; processing the network input through a gater neural network to generate a gating vector that includes a respective value for each of a plurality of filters; determining, from the gating vector and for each of the plurality of filters, whether the filter is active or inactive; and processing the network input through the main convolutional neural network to generate an image processing output, comprising, for each convolutional layer in the first plurality of convolutional layers: receiving an input feature map for the convolutional layer; and generating an output feature map, the generating comprising: for each filter of the convolutional layer that is inactive: setting the output channel for the filter to have all zero elements.