US Patent Issued to GDM Holding on Aug. 11 for "Training action selection neural networks using look-ahead search" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,485, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to GDM Holding LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Training action selection neural networks using look-ahead search" was invented by Karen Simonyan (London), David Silver (Hitchin, Great Britain) and Julian Schrittwieser (London).

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 training an action selection neural network. One of the methods includes receiving an observation characterizing a current state of the environment; determining a target network output for the observation by performing a look ahead search of possible...