US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies on May 19 for "Actor ensemble for continuous control" (Canadian, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,721, issued on May 19, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Actor ensemble for continuous control" was invented by Shangtong Zhang (Oxford, Great Britain), Hengshuai Yao (Markham, Canada) and Hao Chen (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of training a reinforcement learning agent to output actions from a continuous action space, comprising: providing an actor ensemble that includes a plurality of actor neural networks that each output a respective action from the continuous action space in response to an observed state of an environment; providing a critic neural network that approximates a state...