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# MLCPaddingPolicy

A padding policy that you specify for a convolution or pooling layer.

```
enum MLCPaddingPolicy
```

## Topics

### Enumeration Cases

[`MLCPaddingPolicy.same`](/documentation/MLCompute/MLCPaddingPolicy-3hic8/same)

[`MLCPaddingPolicy.valid`](/documentation/MLCompute/MLCPaddingPolicy-3hic8/valid)

[`MLCPaddingPolicy.sized(y:x:)`](/documentation/MLCompute/MLCPaddingPolicy-3hic8/sized(y:x:))

[`debugDescription`](/documentation/MLCompute/MLCPaddingPolicy-3hic8/debugDescription)

A textual description of the padding policy, suitable for debugging.


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