US Patent Issued to Baidu USA, Baidu.com Times Technology (Beijing) on Oct. 28 for "Neural architecture search via similarity-based operator ranking" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,031, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Baidu USA LLC (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Baidu.com Times Technology (Beijing) Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Neural architecture search via similarity-based operator ranking" was invented by Baopu Li (Santa Clara, Calif.), Yanwen Fan (Beijing), Zhihong Pan (San Jose, Calif.), Teng Xi (Beijing) and Gang Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Network architecture search (NAS) received a lot of attention. The supernet-based differentiable approach is popular because it can effectively share the weights and lead to more efficient search. However, the mismatch between the architecture and weights caused b...