ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,573, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Neural network optimizer search" was invented by Irwan Bello (San Francisco), Barret Zoph (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Vijay Vasudevan (Los Altos Hills, 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 update rules for training neural networks. One of the methods includes generating, using a controller neural network, a batch of output sequences, each output sequence in the batch defining a respective update rule; for each output ...