Patents by Inventor DAVID G. GRANGIER

DAVID G. GRANGIER 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).

  • Publication number: 20240135098
    Abstract: A collection of data that is extremely large can be difficult to search and/or analyze. Relevance may be dramatically improved by automatically classifying queries and web pages in useful categories, and using these classification scores as relevance features. A thorough approach may require building a large number of classifiers, corresponding to the various types of information, activities, and products. Creation of classifiers and schematizers is provided on large data sets. Exercising the classifiers and schematizers on hundreds of millions of items may expose value that is inherent to the data by adding usable meta-data. Some aspects include active labeling exploration, automatic regularization and cold start, scaling with the number of items and the number of classifiers, active featuring, and segmentation and schematization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Patrice Y. SIMARD, David G. GRANGIER, Leon BOTTOU, Saleema A. AMERSHI
  • Patent number: 11023677
    Abstract: A collection of data that is extremely large can be difficult to search and/or analyze. Relevance may be dramatically improved by automatically classifying queries and web pages in useful categories, and using these classification scores as relevance features. A thorough approach may require building a large number of classifiers, corresponding to the various types of information, activities, and products. Creation of classifiers and schematizers is provided on large data sets. Exercising the classifiers and schematizers on hundreds of millions of items may expose value that is inherent to the data by adding usable meta-data. Some aspects include active labeling exploration, automatic regularization and cold start, scaling with the number of items and the number of classifiers, active featuring, and segmentation and schematization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Patrice Y. Simard, David Max Chickering, David G. Grangier, Aparna Lakshmiratan, Saleema A. Amershi
  • Patent number: 10839790
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments relate to improvements to neural networks for translation and other sequence-to-sequence tasks. A convolutional neural network may include multiple blocks, each having a convolution layer and gated linear units; gating may determine what information passes through to the next block level. Residual connections, which add the input of a block back to its output, may be applied around each block. Further, an attention may be applied to determine which word is most relevant to translate next. By applying repeated passes of the attention to multiple layers of the decoder, the decoder is able to work on the entire structure of a sentence at once (with no temporal dependency). In addition to better accuracy, this configuration is better at capturing long-range dependencies, better models the hierarchical syntax structure of a sentence, and is highly parallelizable and thus faster to run on hardware.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: FACEBOOK, INC.
    Inventors: Jonas Gehring, Michael Auli, Yann Nicolas Dauphin, David G. Grangier, Dzianis Yarats
  • Patent number: 10372815
    Abstract: A collection of data that is extremely large can be difficult to search and/or analyze. Relevance may be dramatically improved by automatically classifying queries and web pages in useful categories, and using these classification scores as relevance features. A thorough approach may require building a large number of classifiers, corresponding to the various types of information, activities, and products. Creation of classifiers and schematizers is provided on large data sets. Exercising the classifiers and schematizers on hundreds of millions of items may expose value that is inherent to the data by adding usable meta-data. Some aspects include active labeling exploration, automatic regularization and cold start, scaling with the number of items and the number of classifiers, active featuring, and segmentation and schematization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Patrice Y. Simard, David G. Grangier, Leon Bottou, Saleema A. Amershi
  • Publication number: 20190213252
    Abstract: A collection of data that is extremely large can be difficult to search and/or analyze. Relevance may be dramatically improved by automatically classifying queries and web pages in useful categories, and using these classification scores as relevance features. A thorough approach may require building a large number of classifiers, corresponding to the various types of information, activities, and products. Creation of classifiers and schematizers is provided on large data sets. Exercising the classifiers and schematizers on hundreds of millions of items may expose value that is inherent to the data by adding usable meta-data. Some aspects include active labeling exploration, automatic regularization and cold start, scaling with the number of items and the number of classifiers, active featuring, and segmentation and schematization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Inventors: PATRICE Y. SIMARD, DAVID G. GRANGIER, LEON BOTTOU, SALEEMA A. AMERSHI
  • Publication number: 20180261214
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments relate to improvements to neural networks for translation and other sequence-to-sequence tasks. A convolutional neural network may include multiple blocks, each having a convolution layer and gated linear units; gating may determine what information passes through to the next block level. Residual connections, which add the input of a block back to its output, may be applied around each block. Further, an attention may be applied to determine which word is most relevant to translate next. By applying repeated passes of the attention to multiple layers of the decoder, the decoder is able to work on the entire structure of a sentence at once (with no temporal dependency). In addition to better accuracy, this configuration is better at capturing long-range dependencies, better models the hierarchical syntax structure of a sentence, and is highly parallelizable and thus faster to run on hardware.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Inventors: Jonas Gehring, Michael Auli, Yann Nicolas Dauphin, David G. Grangier, Dzianis Yarats
  • Patent number: 9886669
    Abstract: Methods, computer systems, computer-storage media, and graphical user interfaces are provided for visualizing a performance of a machine-learned model. An interactive graphical user interface includes an item representation display area that displays a plurality of item representations corresponding to a plurality of items processed by the machine-learned model. The plurality of item representations are arranged according to scores assigned to the plurality of items by the machine-learned model. Further, each of the plurality of item representations is visually configured to represent a label assigned to a corresponding item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Saleema A. Amershi, Steven M. Drucker, Bongshin Lee, Patrice Yvon Rene Simard, Aparna Lakshmiratan, Carlos Garcia Jurado Suarez, Denis X. Charles, David G. Grangier, David Maxwell Chickering
  • Patent number: 9779081
    Abstract: A collection of data that is extremely large can be difficult to search and/or analyze. Relevance may be dramatically improved by automatically classifying queries and web pages in useful categories, and using these classification scores as relevance features. A thorough approach may require building a large number of classifiers, corresponding to the various types of information, activities, and products. Creation of classifiers and schematizers is provided on large data sets. Exercising the classifiers and schematizers on hundreds of millions of items may expose value that is inherent to the data by adding usable meta-data. Some aspects include active labeling exploration, automatic regularization and cold start, scaling with the number of items and the number of classifiers, active featuring, and segmentation and schematization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Patrice Y. Simard, David Max Chickering, David G. Grangier, Denis X. Charles, Leon Bottou, Carlos Garcia Jurado Suarez
  • Publication number: 20170039486
    Abstract: A collection of data that is extremely large can be difficult to search and/or analyze. Relevance may be dramatically improved by automatically classifying queries and web pages in useful categories, and using these classification scores as relevance features. A thorough approach may require building a large number of classifiers, corresponding to the various types of information, activities, and products. Creation of classifiers and schematizers is provided on large data sets. Exercising the classifiers and schematizers on hundreds of millions of items may expose value that is inherent to the data by adding usable meta-data. Some aspects include active labeling exploration, automatic regularization and cold start, scaling with the number of items and the number of classifiers, active featuring, and segmentation and schematization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2016
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Inventors: Patrice Y. SIMARD, David Max CHICKERING, David G. GRANGIER, Aparna LAKSHMIRATAN, Saleema A. AMERSHI
  • Patent number: 9489373
    Abstract: A collection of data that is extremely large can be difficult to search and/or analyze. Relevance may be dramatically improved by automatically classifying queries and web pages in useful categories, and using these classification scores as relevance features. A thorough approach may require building a large number of classifiers, corresponding to the various types of information, activities, and products. Creation of classifiers and schematizers is provided on large data sets. Exercising the classifiers and schematizers on hundreds of millions of items may expose value that is inherent to the data by adding usable meta-data. Some aspects include active labeling exploration, automatic regularization and cold start, scaling with the number of items and the number of classifiers, active featuring, and segmentation and schematization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Patrice Y. Simard, David Max Chickering, David G. Grangier, Denis X. Charles, Leon Bottou, Saleema A. Amershi, Aparna Lakshmiratan, Carlos Garcia Jurado Suarez
  • Patent number: 9430460
    Abstract: A collection of data that is extremely large can be difficult to search and/or analyze. Relevance may be dramatically improved by automatically classifying queries and web pages in useful categories, and using these classification scores as relevance features. A thorough approach may require building a large number of classifiers, corresponding to the various types of information, activities, and products. Creation of classifiers and schematizers is provided on large data sets. Exercising the classifiers and schematizers on hundreds of millions of items may expose value that is inherent to the data by adding usable meta-data. Some aspects include active labeling exploration, automatic regularization and cold start, scaling with the number of items and the number of classifiers, active featuring, and segmentation and schematization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Patrice Y. Simard, David Max Chickering, David G. Grangier, Aparna Lakshmiratan, Saleema A. Amershi
  • Publication number: 20160239761
    Abstract: A collection of data that is extremely large can be difficult to search and/or analyze. Relevance may be dramatically improved by automatically classifying queries and web pages in useful categories, and using these classification scores as relevance features. A thorough approach may require building a large number of classifiers, corresponding to the various types of information, activities, and products. Creation of classifiers and schematizers is provided on large data sets. Exercising the classifiers and schematizers on hundreds of millions of items may expose value that is inherent to the data by adding usable meta-data. Some aspects include active labeling exploration, automatic regularization and cold start, scaling with the number of items and the number of classifiers, active featuring, and segmentation and schematization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2016
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Inventors: PATRICE Y. SIMARD, DAVID MAX CHICKERING, DAVID G. GRANGIER, DENIS X. CHARLES, LEON BOTTOU, CARLOS GARCIA JURADO SUAREZ
  • Patent number: 9355088
    Abstract: A collection of data that is extremely large can be difficult to search and/or analyze. Relevance may be dramatically improved by automatically classifying queries and web pages in useful categories, and using these classification scores as relevance features. A thorough approach may require building a large number of classifiers, corresponding to the various types of information, activities, and products. Creation of classifiers and schematizers is provided on large data sets. Exercising the classifiers and schematizers on hundreds of millions of items may expose value that is inherent to the data by adding usable meta-data. Some aspects include active labeling exploration, automatic regularization and cold start, scaling with the number of items and the number of classifiers, active featuring, and segmentation and schematization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Patrice Y. Simard, David Max Chickering, David G. Grangier, Denis X. Charles, Leon Bottou, Carlos Garcia Jurado Suarez
  • Publication number: 20150242761
    Abstract: Methods, computer systems, computer-storage media, and graphical user interfaces are provided for visualizing a performance of a machine-learned model. An interactive graphical user interface includes an item representation display area that displays a plurality of item representations corresponding to a plurality of items processed by the machine-learned model. The plurality of item representations are arranged according to scores assigned to the plurality of items by the machine-learned model. Further, each of the plurality of item representations is visually configured to represent a label assigned to a corresponding item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2014
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: SALEEMA A. AMERSHI, STEVEN M. DRUCKER, BONGSHIN LEE, PATRICE YVON RENE SIMARD, APARNA LAKSHMIRATAN, CARLOS GARCIA JURADO SUAREZ, DENIS X. CHARLES, DAVID G. GRANGIER, DAVID MAXWELL CHICKERING
  • Publication number: 20150019461
    Abstract: A collection of data that is extremely large can be difficult to search and/or analyze. Relevance may be dramatically improved by automatically classifying queries and web pages in useful categories, and using these classification scores as relevance features. A thorough approach may require building a large number of classifiers, corresponding to the various types of information, activities, and products. Creation of classifiers and schematizers is provided on large data sets. Exercising the classifiers and schematizers on hundreds of millions of items may expose value that is inherent to the data by adding usable meta-data. Some aspects include active labeling exploration, automatic regularization and cold start, scaling with the number of items and the number of classifiers, active featuring, and segmentation and schematization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2013
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: PATRICE Y. SIMARD, DAVID MAX CHICKERING, DAVID G. GRANGIER, DENIS X. CHARLES, LEON BOTTOU, SALEEMA A. AMERSHI, APARNA LAKSHMIRATAN, CARLOS GARCIA JURADO SUAREZ
  • Publication number: 20150019211
    Abstract: A collection of data that is extremely large can be difficult to search and/or analyze. Relevance may be dramatically improved by automatically classifying queries and web pages in useful categories, and using these classification scores as relevance features. A thorough approach may require building a large number of classifiers, corresponding to the various types of information, activities, and products. Creation of classifiers and schematizers is provided on large data sets. Exercising the classifiers and schematizers on hundreds of millions of items may expose value that is inherent to the data by adding usable meta-data. Some aspects include active labeling exploration, automatic regularization and cold start, scaling with the number of items and the number of classifiers, active featuring, and segmentation and schematization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2013
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Applicant: Microsoft Corportion
    Inventors: PATRICE Y. SIMARD, DAVID G. GRANGIER, LEON BOTTOU, SALEEMA A. AMERSHI
  • Publication number: 20150019463
    Abstract: A collection of data that is extremely large can be difficult to search and/or analyze. Relevance may be dramatically improved by automatically classifying queries and web pages in useful categories, and using these classification scores as relevance features. A thorough approach may require building a large number of classifiers, corresponding to the various types of information, activities, and products. Creation of classifiers and schematizers is provided on large data sets. Exercising the classifiers and schematizers on hundreds of millions of items may expose value that is inherent to the data by adding usable meta-data. Some aspects include active labeling exploration, automatic regularization and cold start, scaling with the number of items and the number of classifiers, active featuring, and segmentation and schematization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2013
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: PATRICE Y. SIMARD, DAVID MAX CHICKERING, DAVID G. GRANGIER, APARNA LAKSHMIRATAN, SALEEMA A. AMERSHI
  • Publication number: 20150019204
    Abstract: A collection of data that is extremely large can be difficult to search and/or analyze. Relevance may be dramatically improved by automatically classifying queries and web pages in useful categories, and using these classification scores as relevance features. A thorough approach may require building a large number of classifiers, corresponding to the various types of information, activities, and products. Creation of classifiers and schematizers is provided on large data sets. Exercising the classifiers and schematizers on hundreds of millions of items may expose value that is inherent to the data by adding usable meta-data. Some aspects include active labeling exploration, automatic regularization and cold start, scaling with the number of items and the number of classifiers, active featuring, and segmentation and schematization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2013
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: PATRICE Y. SIMARD, DAVID MAX CHICKERING, DAVID G. GRANGIER, DENIS X. CHARLES, LEON BOTTOU, CARLOS GARCIA JURADO SUAREZ