A blocked_representation is a representation that indicates the concatentation of multiple identical representations; it is therefore used to produce layers that act partly or wholly as a parallel set of homogeneous layers.

some_br set_element a_rep

Set the representation that is (conceptually) internally repeated in some_br to be a_rep.

some_br number an_int

Set the number of repetitions of some_br to be an_int.

some_br block an_int a_rep

Set the representation and number simultaneously.

some_br element

Return the representation that is conceptually repeated to produce some_br