Patents by Inventor Cun Mu
Cun Mu 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).
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Patent number: 11966434Abstract: A method including determining neighboring items from among sample items based on a respective embedding distance between a query image of a query item and a respective image of each of the neighboring items. The each of the sample items can comprise the respective image and at least one respective item label. The method further can include determining a respective normalized weight for each of the neighboring items based on the respective embedding distance between the query image and the respective image of the each of the neighboring items. The method also can include determining a query item label of the query item based on a weighted majority vote by the neighboring items via the respective normalized weight for the each of the neighboring items. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: WALMART APOLLO, LLCInventors: Binwei Yang, Cun Mu
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Patent number: 11928723Abstract: This application relates to systems and methods for facilitating online search based on offline transaction data.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLCInventors: Yu Wang, Dianhui Zhu, Ayush Parshotam Ruchandani, Cun Mu, Ying Michelle Sun, Saumya Agarwal
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Publication number: 20230403363Abstract: A system comprising one or more processors and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computing instructions that, when executed on the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising: generating, using a fingerprinting network associated with a neural network architecture, feature embeddings corresponding to images; receiving, at an electronic platform, a first non-compliant image; identifying first non-compliant content in the first non-compliant image; and identifying, using multi-modal search options and codes based on the feature embeddings, one or more of the images comprising non-compliant content corresponding to the first non-compliant content in the first non-compliant image. Other embodiments are disclosed herein.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2023Publication date: December 14, 2023Applicant: Walmart Apollo, LLCInventors: Theban Stanley, Binwei Yang, Cun Mu
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Patent number: 11758069Abstract: Systems and methods including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory storage devices storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processors and perform: receiving images at an electronic platform; generating, using a fingerprinting network associated with a neural network architecture, feature embeddings corresponding to the images; generating, using the fingerprinting network, codes based on the feature embeddings; storing the codes in one or more databases; receiving, using a search component associated with the electronic platform, a non-compliant image comprising non-compliant content; and searching the codes in the one or more databases to identify one or more of the images that include non-compliant content similar to, or the same as, the non-compliant content included in the non-compliant image. Other embodiments are disclosed herein.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2020Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: WALMART APOLLO, LLCInventors: Theban Stanley, Binwei Yang, Cun Mu
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Publication number: 20230169109Abstract: A method including pre-screening second images from a database for a search result based on a first image and also based on respective substring distances between first binary substrings for the first image and respective second binary substrings for each of the second images. The method further can include after the pre-screening, determining a respective image distance for each third image of third images of the search result, wherein the respective image distance is between the first image and the each third image of the third images of the search result, and after determining the respective image distance for each third image of the third images of the search result, when the respective image distance for a particular one of the third images is greater than a predetermined image distance threshold, removing the particular one of the third images from the search result before the search result is displayed on a user device requesting the search result. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2023Publication date: June 1, 2023Applicant: Walmart Apollo, LLCInventors: Binwei Yang, Omer Ovenc, Behzad Ahmadi, Cun Mu, Zheng Yan, Guang Yang, Jun Zhao
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Patent number: 11625429Abstract: A method including bit-operation and sub-code/substring filtering for image searching using a full-text search engine. The method can include determining a first binary vector comprising first binary substrings for a first image. The method also can include obtaining a respective second binary vector comprising second binary substrings for each of second images from a database. The method additionally can include determining a respective substring distance for each of the binary substring for each of the second images. The respective substring distance can be between at least a pair of a first binary substring of the first binary substrings of the first binary vector and a respective corresponding second binary substring of the second binary substrings of the respective second binary vector for each of the second images.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2020Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: WALMART APOLLO, LLCInventors: Binwei Yang, Omer Ovenc, Behzad Ahmadi, Cun Mu, Zheng Yan, Guang Yang, Jun Zhao
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Publication number: 20230035109Abstract: This application relates to systems and methods for facilitating online search based on offline transaction data.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2021Publication date: February 2, 2023Inventors: Yu Wang, Dianhui Zhu, Ayush Parshotam Ruchandani, Cun Mu, Ying Michelle Sun, Saumya Agarwal
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Publication number: 20220358559Abstract: A result ranking system can include a computing device that is configured to obtain a plurality of items based on a query and a value corresponding to each item of the plurality of items. The computing system can also be configured to retrieve a value distribution corresponding to the query and generated based on customer interaction data. The computing system can also, for each item of the plurality of items, determine a feature value based on the value distribution and the corresponding value of the item. The computing system can be further configured to transmit the plurality of items to a customer device for display in an arrangement based on the corresponding feature value.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 5, 2021Publication date: November 10, 2022Inventors: Xinyi Liu, Varun Joshi, Jungwoo Han, Cun Mu, Rajyashree Mukherjee
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Publication number: 20220351239Abstract: This application relates to apparatus and methods for training machine learning models, and applying trained machine learning models to generate item ranking values. In some examples, user session data for multiple users is received. Based on the user session data, user engagement data is generated characterizing engagements of corresponding items for a search query. Further, a number of examines is determined for each of the corresponding items. The user engagement data for each item is normalized based on the corresponding number of examines, and ranking data is generated based on the normalized user engagement data. The ranking data characterizes a ranking of at least a subset of the items. Further, a machine learning model is trained based on the ranking data. In some examples, the trained machine learning model is applied to a query to generate a ranking of items, and the ranking data is transmitted to a web server.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2021Publication date: November 3, 2022Inventors: Rashad Mohamed Tawfik Rashad Eletreby, Cun Mu, Zhenrui Wang, Rajyashree Mukherjee
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Publication number: 20220261434Abstract: A method including determining neighboring items from among sample items based on a respective embedding distance between a query image of a query item and a respective image of each of the neighboring items. The each of the sample items can comprise the respective image and at least one respective item label. The method further can include determining a respective normalized weight for each of the neighboring items based on the respective embedding distance between the query image and the respective image of the each of the neighboring items. The method also can include determining a query item label of the query item based on a weighted majority vote by the neighboring items via the respective normalized weight for the each of the neighboring items. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2021Publication date: August 18, 2022Applicant: Walmart Apollo, LLCInventors: Binwei Yang, Cun Mu
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Publication number: 20210240760Abstract: A method including bit-operation and sub-code/substring filtering for image searching using a full-text search engine. The method can include determining a first binary vector of first binary substrings for a first image. The method also can include obtaining a respective second binary vector comprising second binary substrings for each of second images from a database. The method additionally can include determining a respective sub string distance for each of the binary substring for each of the second images. The respective substring distance can be between at least a pair of a first binary sub string of the first binary sub strings of the first binary vector and a respective corresponding second binary sub string of the second binary sub strings of the respective second binary vector for each of the second images.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2020Publication date: August 5, 2021Applicant: Walmart Apollo, LLCInventors: Binwei Yang, Omer Ovenc, Behzad Ahmadi, Cun Mu, Zheng Yan, Guang Yang, Jun Zhao
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Publication number: 20210232620Abstract: Systems and methods including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory storage devices storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processors and perform: receiving images at an electronic platform; generating, using a fingerprinting network associated with a neural network architecture, feature embeddings corresponding to the images; generating, using the fingerprinting network, codes based on the feature embeddings; storing the codes in one or more databases; receiving, using a search component associated with the electronic platform, a non-compliant image comprising non-compliant content; and searching the codes in the one or more databases to identify one or more of the images that include non-compliant content similar to, or the same as, the non-compliant content included in the non-compliant image. Other embodiments are disclosed herein.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2020Publication date: July 29, 2021Applicant: Walmart Apollo, LLCInventors: Theban Stanley, Binwei Yang, Cun Mu
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Patent number: 10291485Abstract: A network device, system, and method are provided. The network device includes a processor. The processor is configured to store a local estimate and a dual variable maintaining an accumulated subgradient for the network device. The processor is further configured to collect values of the dual variable of neighboring network devices. The processor is also configured to form a convex combination with equal weight from the collected dual variable of neighboring network devices. The processor is additionally configured to add a most recent local subgradient for the network device, scaled by a scaling factor, to the convex combination to obtain an updated dual variable. The processor is further configured to update the local estimate by projecting the updated dual variable to a primal space.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2016Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignee: NEC CorporationInventors: Asim Kadav, Renqiang Min, Erik Kruus, Cun Mu
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Publication number: 20170111234Abstract: A network device, system, and method are provided. The network device includes a processor. The processor is configured to store a local estimate and a dual variable maintaining an accumulated subgradient for the network device. The processor is further configured to collect values of the dual variable of neighboring network devices. The processor is also configured to form a convex combination with equal weight from the collected dual variable of neighboring network devices. The processor is additionally configured to add a most recent local subgradient for the network device, scaled by a scaling factor, to the convex combination to obtain an updated dual variable. The processor is further configured to update the local estimate by projecting the updated dual variable to a primal space.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2016Publication date: April 20, 2017Inventors: Asim Kadav, Renqiang Min, Erik Kruus, Cun Mu