Reduction {#dev_guide_reduction}
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> [API Reference](@ref dnnl_api_reduction)
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## General

The reduction primitive performs reduction operation on arbitrary data. Each
element in the destination is the result of reduction operation with specified
algorithm along one or multiple source tensor dimensions:

\f[
    \dst(f) = \mathop{reduce\_op}\limits_{r}\src(r),
\f]

where \f$reduce\_op\f$ can be max, min, sum, mul, mean, Lp-norm and
Lp-norm-power-p, \f$f\f$ is an index in an idle dimension and \f$r\f$ is an
index in a reduction dimension.

Mean:

\f[
    \dst(f) = \frac{\sum\limits_{r}\src(r)} {R},
\f]

where \f$R\f$ is the size of a reduction dimension.

Lp-norm:

\f[
    \dst(f) = \root p \of {\mathop{eps\_op}(\sum\limits_{r}|src(r)|^p, eps)},
\f]

where \f$eps\_op\f$ can be max and sum.

Lp-norm-power-p:

\f[
    \dst(f) = \mathop{eps\_op}(\sum\limits_{r}|src(r)|^p, eps),
\f]

where \f$eps\_op\f$ can be max and sum.

### Notes

 * The reduction primitive requires the source and destination tensors to have
   the same number of dimensions.
 * Reduction dimensions are of size 1 in a destination tensor.
 * The reduction primitive does not have a notion of forward or backward
   propagations.
 * For Lp-norm algorithms, the parameter \f$p\f$ must be a finite value
   greater than or equal to 1.0.

## Execution Arguments

When executed, the inputs and outputs should be mapped to an execution
argument index as specified by the following table.

| Primitive input/output      | Execution argument index                                                  |
|-----------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| \src                        | DNNL_ARG_SRC                                                              |
| \dst                        | DNNL_ARG_DST                                                              |
| \f$\text{binary post-op}\f$ | DNNL_ARG_ATTR_MULTIPLE_POST_OP(binary_post_op_position) \| DNNL_ARG_SRC_1,|
|                             | DNNL_ARG_ATTR_MULTIPLE_POST_OP(binary_post_op_position) \| DNNL_ARG_SRC_2 |

## Implementation Details

### General Notes
 * The \dst memory format can be either specified explicitly or by
   #dnnl::memory::format_tag::any (recommended), in which case the primitive
   will derive the most appropriate memory format based on the format of the
   source tensor.

### Post-Ops and Attributes

The following attributes are supported:

| Type    | Operation                                      | Description                                                                    | Restrictions                        |
|:--------|:-----------------------------------------------|:-------------------------------------------------------------------------------|:------------------------------------|
| Post-op | [Sum](@ref dnnl::post_ops::append_sum)         | Adds the operation result to the destination tensor instead of overwriting it. |                                     |
| Post-op | [Eltwise](@ref dnnl::post_ops::append_eltwise) | Applies an @ref dnnl_api_eltwise operation to the result.                      |                                     |
| Post-op | [Binary](@ref dnnl::post_ops::append_binary)   | Applies a @ref dnnl_api_binary operation to the result                         | General binary post-op restrictions |

### Data Types Support

The source and destination tensors may have `f32`, `bf16`, `f16` or `int8` data
types.
See @ref dev_guide_data_types page for more details.

### Data Representation

#### Sources, Destination

The reduction primitive works with arbitrary data tensors. There is no special
meaning associated with any of the dimensions of a tensor.

## Implementation Limitations

1. Refer to @ref dev_guide_data_types for limitations related to data types
   support.

2. **GPU**
   - Only tensors of 6 or fewer dimensions are supported.

## Performance Tips

1. Whenever possible, avoid specifying different memory formats for source
   and destination tensors.

## Examples

See @ref dev_guide_examples page for a complete list. Reduction examples are listed in the
[Tensor Operations](@ref examples_tensor_operations) section.