ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,137, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Meta-Q learning" was invented by Rasool Fakoor (San Jose, Calif.), Alexander Johannes Smola (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Stefano Soatto (Pasadena, Calif.) and Pratik Anil Chaudhari (Pasadena, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for Meta-Q-Learning (MQL) are described. A method of MQL may include receiving a request from an agent to perform adaptation based at least on task data associated with a new task collected by the agent, identifying a subset of meta-training data corresponding to the task data in a replay buffer, and adapting a policy using the sub...