LEARNING APPARATUS FOR USE IN HIDING PROCESS USING NEURAL NETWORK, INFERENCE APPARATUS, INFERENCE SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD FOR THE LEARNING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD FOR THE INFERENCE APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM

A learning apparatus which is capable of implementing a hiding process even if there is no processing unit exclusively for hiding. The learning apparatus is used for the hiding process using a neural network. Output data is obtained from a first inference model that has been trained and performs predetermined processing on input data. A second inference model that includes a processing layer for hiding, which includes at least one layer for hiding the output data is obtained. The output data from the first inference model is used as input data to train the second inference model.