US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on April 7 for "Weak neural architecture search (NAS) predictor" (Washington, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,908, issued on April 7, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Weak neural architecture search (NAS) predictor" was invented by Xiyang Dai (Seattle), Dongdong Chen (Bellevue, Wash.), Yinpeng Chen (Sammamish, Wash.), Mengchen Liu (Redmond, Wash.), Ye Yu (Redmond, Wash.), Zicheng Liu (Bellevue, Wash.), Mei Chen (Bellevue, Wash.), Lu Yuan (Redmond, Wash.) and Junru Wu (College Station, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A neural architecture search (NAS) with a weak predictor comprises: receiving network architecture scoring information; iteratively sampling a search space, wherein the sampling comprises...