US Patent Issued to Google on Aug. 11 for "Attention-based neural networks with branching blocks" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,489, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Attention-based neural networks with branching blocks" was invented by David Martin Dohan (San Francisco), David Richard So (San Francisco), Chen Liang (Stanford, Calif.) and Quoc V. Le (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for receiving training data for training a neural network to perform a machine learning task and for searching for, using the training data, an optimized neural network architecture for performing the machine learning task is described. Searching for the optimized neural network architecture includes: maintaining popu...