ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,779, issued on May 19, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Hyperparameter selection using budget-aware Bayesian optimization" was invented by Syrine Belakaria (Pullman, Wash.), Rishit Sheth (Arlington, Mass.) and Nicolo Fusi (Watertown, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Generally discussed herein are devices, systems, and methods for identifying optimal hyperparameter values within a pre-defined budget. A method can include, while training a model for a number of iterations using values of a hyperparameter vector, recording objective function values of the objective function and cost function value...