US Patent Issued to Alibaba (China) on Feb. 24 for "Sampler and apparatus for executing graph neural network model" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,551, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Alibaba (China) Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou, China).

"Sampler and apparatus for executing graph neural network model" was invented by Tianchan Guan (Shanghai), Yanhong Wang (Shanghai), Shuangchen Li (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Heng Liu (Shanghai) and Hongzhong Zheng (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sampler for executing a graph neural network (GNN) model are disclosed. The sampler is configured to implement random sampling for neighbor nodes around a specified node of a GNN model, and performs: obtaining a quantity of neighbor nodes around the specified node and a target number of neighbor n...