ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,016, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Fine-tuning large language model(s) using reinforcement learning with search engine feedback" was invented by Hyun Jin Park (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Changwan Ryu (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations are directed towards fine-tuning a large language model (LLM) using search engine feedback (e.g., responsive content generated based on a reference source material such as a set of search engine results). Additionally or alternatively, a supervision signal can be generated based on comparing search engine conditioned LLM outp...