Patents by Inventor Eva Dyer

Eva Dyer 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: 20190004996
    Abstract: A computer implemented method for optimizing a function is disclosed. The method may comprise identifying an empirical convex envelope, on the basis of a hyperparameter, that estimates the convex envelope of the function; optimizing the empirical convex envelope; and providing the result of optimizing the empirical convex envelope as an estimate of the optimization of the first function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Applicant: Northwestern University
    Inventors: Mohammad G. Azar, Eva Dyer, Konrad Kording
  • Publication number: 20170199845
    Abstract: A computer implemented method for optimizing a function is disclosed. The method may comprise identifying an empirical convex envelope, on the basis of a hyperparameter, that estimates the convex envelope of the function; optimizing the empirical convex envelope; and providing the result of optimizing the empirical convex envelope as an estimate of the optimization of the first function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2017
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Inventors: Mohammad G. Azar, Eva Dyer, Konrad Kording