ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,026, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Alibaba (China) Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou, China).
"Method and system for program sampling using neural network" was invented by Yuanwei Fang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jian Chen (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Yen-Kuang Chen (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Yuan Xie (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application describes methods, systems, and apparatus, for neural network-based program sampling (NPS). An example device may obtain an assembly code of a program and an execution trace of the program, and divide the assembly code into a plurality of execution intervals. The device may construct a plurality of...