US Patent Issued to PayPal on April 8 for "Reinforcement learning techniques for dialogue management" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,703, issued on April 8, was assigned to PayPal Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Reinforcement learning techniques for dialogue management" was invented by Rajesh Virupaksha Munavalli (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed herein relating to using reinforcement learning to generate a dialogue policy. A computer system may perform an iterative training operation to train a deep Q-learning network (DQN) based on conversation logs from prior conversations. In various embodiments, the DQN may include an input layer to receive an input value indicative of a current state of a given conversation, one or more hidd...