Patents by Inventor Benjamin Tyler ELDER

Benjamin Tyler ELDER has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11989626
    Abstract: A technique for generating a performance prediction of a machine learning model with uncertainty intervals includes obtaining a first model configured to perform a task and a production dataset. At least one metric predicting a performance of the first model at performing the task on the production dataset is generated using a second model. The second model is a meta-model associated with the first model. At least one value predicting an uncertainty of the at least one metric predicting the performance of the first model at performing the task on the production dataset is generated using a third model. The third model is a meta-meta-model associated with the second model. An indication of the at least one metric and the at least one value is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Matthew Richard Arnold, Benjamin Tyler Elder, Jiri Navratil, Ganesh Venkataraman
  • Patent number: 11676075
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method, a computer program product, and a system for reducing labeled sample quantities required to update test sets. The computer-implemented method includes inputting a portion of unlabeled production data into a base model and generating labeled output relating to the unlabeled production data. The computer-implemented method also includes inputting the labeled output into a performance predictor. The performance predictor is a meta model of the base model that is trained with another portion of the unlabeled production data, a training set used to train the base model, and a test set portioned from the training set. The computer-implemented method further includes outputting, by the performance predictor, a performance metric relating to the labeled output produced by the trained base model. The performance metric can be any metric capable of measuring the output performance of the base model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jiri Navratil, Matthew Richard Arnold, Begum Taskazan, Benjamin Tyler Elder
  • Publication number: 20230122472
    Abstract: Hybrid on-policy/off-policy techniques are provided for improving the estimation of quality (reward) of a control policy for decision making by combining the on-policy and off-policy data from multiple estimators into a single metric. In one aspect, a method for estimating a reward of a policy for decision making in a computer system includes: computing multiple reward estimates of the policy using estimators, wherein at least a subset of the estimators compute reward estimates with prediction intervals; and combining the multiple reward estimates using a combiner to produce a new reward estimate. Thus, some of the estimators might compute the reward estimates without prediction intervals. A method for estimating a reward of a policy when another one or more of the estimators compute reward estimates without prediction intervals is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventors: Benjamin Tyler Elder, Matthew Richard Arnold, Michael Lawrence Stickler
  • Publication number: 20220172109
    Abstract: A computer implemented method of performing large-scale machine learning experiments includes expanding on one or more input datasets by systematically generating several data set drift splits. A set of experimental jobs corresponding to the generated data set drift splits are executed to generate experimental results. The experimental results are processed, consolidated, and clustered according to the generated data set drift splits.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventors: Evelyn Duesterwald, Anupama Murthi, Michael Hind, Matthew Richard Arnold, Benjamin Tyler Elder, Jiri Navratil
  • Publication number: 20210350181
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method, a computer program product, and a system for reducing labeled sample quantities required to update test sets. The computer-implemented method includes inputting a portion of unlabeled production data into a base model and generating labeled output relating to the unlabeled production data. The computer-implemented method also includes inputting the labeled output into a performance predictor. The performance predictor is a meta model of the base model that is trained with another portion of the unlabeled production data, a training set used to train the base model, and a test set portioned from the training set. The computer-implemented method further includes outputting, by the performance predictor, a performance metric relating to the labeled output produced by the trained base model. The performance metric can be any metric capable of measuring the output performance of the base model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Inventors: Jiri Navratil, Matthew Richard Arnold, Begum Taskazan, Benjamin Tyler Elder
  • Publication number: 20210312323
    Abstract: A technique for generating a performance prediction of a machine learning model with uncertainty intervals includes obtaining a first model configured to perform a task and a production dataset. At least one metric predicting a performance of the first model at performing the task on the production dataset is generated using a second model. The second model is a meta-model associated with the first model. At least one value predicting an uncertainty of the at least one metric predicting the performance of the first model at performing the task on the production dataset is generated using a third model. The third model is a meta-meta-model associated with the second model. An indication of the at least one metric and the at least one value is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2020
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Inventors: Matthew ARNOLD, Benjamin Tyler ELDER, Jiri NAVRATIL, Ganesh VENKATARAMAN