US Patent Issued to Indeed on March 31 for "Knowledge distillation in multi-arm bandit, neural network models for real-time online optimization" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,789, issued on March 31, was assigned to Indeed Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Knowledge distillation in multi-arm bandit, neural network models for real-time online optimization" was invented by Ziying Liu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Haiyan Luo (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jianjie Ma (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Yu Sun (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A knowledge distillation system and method trains neural networks utilizing a non-conventional replay buffer and augmented data tuples. In at least one embodiment, the knowledge distillation system and method pretrain a teacher model that implements a contextual bandit algorithm. A lightweight s...