US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University on Jan. 27 for "Systems and methods for providing reinforcement learning in a deep learning system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,444, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for providing reinforcement learning in a deep learning system" was invented by Ian David Moffat Osband (Stanford, Calif.) and Benjamin Van Roy (Stanford, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for providing reinforcement learning for a deep learning network are disclosed. A reinforcement learning process that provides deep exploration is provided by a bootstrap that applied to a sample of observed and artificial data to facilitate deep exploration via a Thompson sampling a...