ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,817, issued on July 1, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Neural architecture search" was invented by Barret Zoph (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Yun Jia Guan (Stanford, Calif.), Hieu Hy Pham (Redwood City, Calif.) and Quoc V. Le (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for determining neural network architectures. One of the methods includes generating, using a controller neural network, a batch of output sequences, each output sequence in the batch specifying a respective subset of a plurality of components of a large neur...