US Patent Issued to Google on July 15 for "Neural architecture search for convolutional neural networks" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,305, issued on July 15, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Neural architecture search for convolutional neural networks" was invented by Vijay Vasudevan (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), Barret Zoph (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jonathon Shlens (San Francisco) 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 having controller parameters and in accordance with current values of the controller parameters, ...