Patents by Inventor Gautam Shroff

Gautam Shroff 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: 11379717
    Abstract: Traditional systems and methods have implemented hand-crafted feature extraction from varying length time series that results in complexity and requires domain knowledge. Building classification models requires large labeled data and is computationally expensive. Embodiments of the present disclosure implement learning models for classification tasks in multi-dimensional time series by performing feature extraction from entity's parameters via unsupervised encoder and build a non-temporal linear classifier model. A fixed-dimensional feature vector is outputted using a pre-trained unsupervised encoder, which acts as off-the shelf feature extractor. Extracted features are concatenated to learn a non-temporal linear classification model and weight is assigned to each extracted feature during learning which helps to determine relevant parameters for each class. Mapping from parameters to target class is considered while constraining the linear model to use only subset of large number of features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Tata Consultancy Services Limited
    Inventors: Pankaj Malhotra, Priyanka Gupta, Lovekesh Vig, Gautam Shroff
  • Patent number: 11373090
    Abstract: In automated assistant systems, a deep-learning model in form of a long short-term memory (LSTM) classifier is used for mapping questions to classes, with each class having a manually curated answer. A team of experts manually create the training data used to train this classifier. Relying on human curation often results in such linguistic training biases creeping into training data, since every individual has a specific style of writing natural language and uses some words in specific context only. Deep models end up learning these biases, instead of the core concept words of the target classes. In order to correct these biases, meaningful sentences are automatically generated using a generative model, and then used for training a classification model. For example, a variational autoencoder (VAE) is used as the generative model for generating novel sentences and a language model (LM) is utilized for selecting sentences based on likelihood.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Tata Consultancy Services Limited
    Inventors: Puneet Agarwal, Mayur Patidar, Lovekesh Vig, Gautam Shroff
  • Publication number: 20220188899
    Abstract: This disclosure relates generally to method and system for handling popularity bias in item recommendations. In an embodiment the method includes initializing an item embedding look-up matrix corresponding to items in a sequence of item-clicks with respect to a training data. L2 norm is applied to the item embedding look-up matrix to learn a normalized item embeddings. Using a neural network, a session embeddings corresponding to the sequences of item-clicks is modeled and L2 norm is applied to the session embeddings to obtain a normalized session embeddings. Relevance scores corresponding to each of the plurality of items arc obtained based on similarity between the normalized item embeddings and the normalized session embeddings. A multi-dimensional probability vector corresponding to the relevance scores for the items to be clicked in the sequence is obtained. A list of the items ordered based on the multi-dimensional probability vector is provided as recommendation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Applicant: Tata Consultancy Services Limited
    Inventors: PANKAJ MALHOTRA, PRIYANKA GUPTA, DIKSHA GARG, LOVEKESH VIG, GAUTAM SHROFF
  • Publication number: 20220156607
    Abstract: Session-based Recommendation (SR) is the task of recommending the next item based on previously recorded user interactions. However, most existing approaches for SR either rely on costly online interactions with real users (model-free approaches) or rely on potentially biased rule-based or data-driven user-behavior models (model-based approaches) for learning. This disclosure relates to a system and method for selecting session-based recommendation policies using historical recommendations and user feedback. Herein, the learning of recommendation policies given offline or batch data from old recommendation policies based on a Distributional Reinforcement Learning (DRL) based recommender system in the offline or batch-constrained setting without requiring access to a user-behavior model or real-interactions with the users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Applicant: Tata Consultancy Services Limited
    Inventors: Diksha Garg, Pankaj Malhotra, Priyanka Gupta, Lovekesh Vig, Gautam Shroff
  • Patent number: 11294946
    Abstract: This disclosure relates generally to methods and systems for generating a textual summary from a tabular data. During the textual summary generation using conventional end-to-end neural network-based techniques, a numeric data present in the tables is encoded via textual embeddings. However, the textual embeddings cannot reliably encode information about numeric concepts and relationships. The methods and systems generate the textual summary from the tabular data, by incorporating rank information for different records present in the tabular data. Then, a two-stage encoder-decoder network is used to learn correlations between the rank information and the probability of including the records based on the rank information, to obtain the textual summary generation model. The textual summary generation model identifies the content selection having the records present in the tables to be included in the textual summary and generates the textual summary from the identified content selection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES LIMITED
    Inventors: Mrinal Rawat, Lovekesh Vig, Amit Sangroya, Gautam Shroff
  • Publication number: 20220093249
    Abstract: In presence of high-cardinality treatment variables, number of counterfactual outcomes to be estimated is much larger than number of factual observations, rendering the problem to be ill-posed. Furthermore, lack of information regarding the confounders among large number of covariates pose challenges in handling confounding bias. Essential is to find lower-dimensional manifold where an equivalent problem of causal inference can be posed, and counterfactual outcomes can be computed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Applicant: Tata Consultancy Services Limited
    Inventors: ANKIT SHARMA, GARIMA GUPTA, RANJITHA PRASAD, ARNAB CHATTERJEE, LOVEKESH VIG, GAUTAM SHROFF
  • Publication number: 20220092354
    Abstract: This disclosure relates generally to a method and system for generating labelled dataset using a training data recommender technique. Recommender systems face major challenges in handling dynamic data on machine learning paradigms thereby rendering inaccurate unlabeled dataset. The method of the present disclosure is based on a training data recommender technique suitably constructed with a newly defined parameter such as the labelled data prediction threshold to determine the adequate amount of labelled training data required for training the one or more machine learning models. The method processes the received unlabeled dataset for labelling the unlabeled dataset based on a labelled data prediction threshold which is determined using a trained training data recommender technique.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Applicant: Tata Consultancy Services Limited
    Inventors: Shruti Kunde, Mayank Mishra, Rekha Singhal, Amey Pandit, Manoj Nambiar, Gautam Shroff
  • Publication number: 20220036166
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to optimizing an operation of an equipment by a neural network based optimizer is provided. The method include receiving, information associated with at least one equipment instance (j) as an input at a predefined sequence of timestamps; training, a plurality of simulation models for each equipment instance to obtain a function (fj); processing, the external input parameters (et) to obtain a fixed-dimensional vector and passed as an input to obtain an vector (it); generating, a modified (it) from the output vector (it) based on a domain constraint value; computing, a reward (rt) based on (i) the function (fj), (ii) the modified (it), (iii) the external input parameters (et), and (iv) a reward function (Rj); and iteratively performing the steps of processing, generating, and computing reward (rt) for a series of subsequent equipment instances after expiry of the predefined sequence of timestamps associated with a first equipment instance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2019
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Applicant: Tata Consultancy Services Limited
    Inventors: Vishnu TANKASALA VEPARALA, Solomon Pushparaj MANUELRAJ, Ankit BANSAL, Pankaj MALHOTRA, Lovekesh VIG, Gautam SHROFF, Venkataramana RUNKANA, Sivakumar SUBRAMANIAN, Aditya PAREEK, Vishnu Swaroopji MASAMPALLY, Nishit RAJ
  • Publication number: 20210406603
    Abstract: Several applications capture data from sensors resulting in multi-sensor time series. Existing neural networks-based approaches for such multi-sensor/multivariate time series modeling assume fixed input-dimension/number of sensors. Such approaches can struggle in practical setting where different instances of same device/equipment come with different combinations of installed sensors. In the present disclosure, neural network models are trained from such multi-sensor time series having varying input dimensionality, owing to availability/installation of different sensors subset at each source of time series. Neural network (NN) architecture is provided for zero-shot transfer learning allowing robust inference for multivariate time series with previously unseen combination of available dimensions/sensors at test time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: Tata Consultancy Services Limited
    Inventors: Jyoti NARWARIYA, Pankaj Malhotra, Vibhor Gupta, Vishnu Tankasala Veparala, Lovekesh Vig, Gautam Shroff
  • Publication number: 20210390033
    Abstract: This disclosure relates generally to accelerating development and deployment of enterprise applications where the applications involve both data driven and task driven components in data driven enterprise information technology (IT) systems. The disclosed system is capable of determining components of the application that may be task-driven and/or those components which may be data-driven using inputs such as business use case, data sources and requirements specifications. The system is capable of determining the components that may be developed using task-driven and data-drive paradigms and enables migration of components from the task driven paradigm to the data driven paradigm. Also, the system trains a reinforcement learning (RL) model for facilitating migration of the identified components from the task driven paradigm to the data driven paradigm. The system is further capable of integrating the migrated and existing components to accelerate development and deployment an integrated IT application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Applicant: Tata Consultancy Services Limited
    Inventors: Rekha SINGHAL, Gautam SHROFF, Dheeraj CHAHAL, Mayank MISHRA, Shruti KUNDE, Manoj NAMBIAR
  • Publication number: 20210357443
    Abstract: This disclosure relates generally to methods and systems for generating a textual summary from a tabular data. During the textual summary generation using conventional end-to-end neural network-based techniques, a numeric data present in the tables is encoded via textual embeddings. However, the textual embeddings cannot reliably encode information about numeric concepts and relationships. The methods and systems generate the textual summary from the tabular data, by incorporating rank information for different records present in the tabular data. Then, a two-stage encoder-decoder network is used to learn correlations between the rank information and the probability of including the records based on the rank information, to obtain the textual summary generation model. The textual summary generation model identifies the content selection having the records present in the tables to be included in the textual summary and generates the textual summary from the identified content selection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Applicant: Tata Consultancy Services Limited
    Inventors: Mrinal RAWAT, Lovekesh VIG, Amit SANGROYA, Gautam SHROFF
  • Publication number: 20210326727
    Abstract: Causality is a crucial paradigm in several domains where observational data is available. Primary goal of Causal Inference (CI) is to uncover cause-effect relationship between entities. Conventional methods face challenges in providing an accurate CI framework due to cofounding and selection bias in multiple treatment scenario. The present disclosure computes a Propensity Score (PS) from a received CI data for the plurality of subjects under test for a treatment. A Generalized Propensity Score (GPS) is computed for a plurality of treatments corresponding to the plurality of subjects by using the PS. Further, a plurality of task batches are created using the GPS and given as input to the DNN for training. Errors in factual data and in balancing representation of the DNN are rectified using a novel loss function. The trained DNN is further used for predicting the counter factual treatment response corresponding to the factual treatment data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Applicant: Tata Consultancy Services Limited
    Inventors: Garima GUPTA, Ankit SHARMA, Ranjitha PRASAD, Arnab CHATTERJEE, Lovekesh VIG, Gautam SHROFF
  • Publication number: 20210232971
    Abstract: This disclosure relates generally to data meta model and meta file generation for feature engineering and training of machine learning models thereof. Conventional methods do not facilitate appropriate relevant data identification for feature engineering and also do not implement standardization for use of solution across domains. Embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems and methods wherein datasets from various sources/domains are utilized for meta file generation that is based on mapping of the dataset with a data meta model based on the domains, the meta file comprises meta data and information pertaining to action(s) being performed. Further functions are generated using the meta file and the functions are assigned to corresponding data characterized in the meta file. Further functions are invoked to generate feature vector set and machine learning model(s) are trained using the features vector set. Implementation of the generated data meta-model enables re-using of feature engineering code.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Applicant: Tata Consultancy Services Limited
    Inventors: Mayank MISHRA, Shruti KUNDE, Sharod ROY CHOUDHURY, Amey PANDIT, Manoj Karunakaran NAMBIAR, Siddharth VERMA, Gautam SHROFF, Pankaj MALHOTRA, Rekha SINGHAL
  • Patent number: 11023686
    Abstract: Conversational systems are required to be capable of handling more sophisticated interactions than providing factual answers only. Such interactions are handled by resolving abstract anaphoric references in conversational systems which includes antecedent fact references and posterior fact references. The present disclosure resolves abstract anaphoric references in conversational systems using hierarchically stacked neural networks. In the present disclosure, a deep hierarchical maxpool network based model is used to obtain a representation of each utterance received from users and a representation of one or more generated sequences of utterances. The obtained representations are further used to identify contextual dependencies with in the one or more generated sequences which helps in resolving abstract anaphoric references in conversational systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES LIMITED
    Inventors: Puneet Agarwal, Prerna Khurana, Gautam Shroff, Lovekesh Vig
  • Publication number: 20210103812
    Abstract: Neural networks can be used for time series data classification. However, in a K-shot scenario in which sufficient training data is unavailable to train the neural network, the neural network may not produce desired results. Disclosed herein are a method and system for training a neural network for time series data classification. In this method, by processing a plurality of task specific data, a system generates a set of updated parameters, which is further used to train a neural network (network) till a triplet loss is below a threshold. The network is trained on a diverse set of few-shot tasks sampled from various domains (e.g. healthcare, activity recognition, and so on) such that it can solve a target task from another domain using only a small number of training samples from the target task.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Applicant: Tata Consultancy Services Limited
    Inventors: Pankaj MALHOTRA, Jyoti NARWARIYA, Lovekesh VIG, Gautam SHROFF
  • Patent number: 10936897
    Abstract: Various methods are using SQL based data extraction for extracting relevant information from images. These are rule based methods of generating SQL-Query from NL, if any new English sentences are to be handled then manual intervention is required. Further becomes difficult for non-technical user. A system and method for extracting relevant from the images using a conversational interface and database querying have been provided. The system eliminates noisy effects, identifying the type of documents and detect various entities for diagrams. Further a schema is designed which allows an easy to understand abstraction of the entities detected by the deep vision models and the relationships between them. Relevant information and fields can then be extracted from the document by writing SQL queries on top of the relationship tables. A natural language based interface is added so that a non-technical user, specifying the queries in natural language, can fetch the information effortlessly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES LIMITED
    Inventors: Lovekesh Vig, Gautam Shroff, Arindam Chowdhury, Rohit Rahul, Gunjan Sehgal, Vishwanath Doreswamy, Monika Sharma, Ashwin Srinivasan
  • Patent number: 10891438
    Abstract: Systems and methods for Deep Learning techniques based multi-purpose conversational agents for processing natural language queries. The traditional systems and methods provide for conversational systems for processing natural language queries but do not employ Deep Learning techniques, and thus are unable to process large number of intents. Embodiments of the present disclosure provide for Deep Learning techniques based multi-purpose conversational agents for processing the natural language queries by defining and logically integrating a plurality of components comprising of multi-purpose conversational agents, identifying an appropriate agent to process one or more natural language queries by a High Level Intent Identification technique, predicting a probable user intent, classifying the query, and generate a set of responses by querying or updating one or more knowledge graphs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: Tata Consultancy Services Limited
    Inventors: Mahesh Prasad Singh, Puneet Agarwal, Ashish Chaudhary, Gautam Shroff, Prerna Khurana, Mayur Patidar, Vivek Bisht, Rachit Bansal, Prateek Sachan, Rohit Kumar
  • Patent number: 10769157
    Abstract: This disclosure relates generally to data processing, and more particularly to a system and a method for mapping heterogeneous data sources. For a product being sold globally, there might be one global database listing characteristics of the product, and from various System and method for mapping attributes of entities are disclosed. In an embodiment, the system uses a combination of Supervised Bayesian Model (SBM) and an Unsupervised Textual Similarity (UTS) model for data analysis. A weighted ensemble of the SBM and the UTS is used, wherein the ensemble is weighted based on a confidence measure. The system, by performing data processing, identifies data match between different data sources (a local databases and a corresponding global database) being compared, and based on matching data found, performs mapping between the local databases and the global database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Tata Consultancy Services Limited
    Inventors: Karamjit Singh, Garima Gupta, Gautam Shroff, Puneet Agarwal
  • Patent number: 10719774
    Abstract: This disclosure relates generally to health monitoring of systems, and more particularly to monitor health of a system for fault signature identification. The system estimates Health Index (HI) of the system as time series data. By analyzing data corresponding to the estimated HI, the system identifies one or more time windows in which majority of the estimated HI values are low as a low HI window, and one or more time windows in which majority of the estimated HI values are high as a high HI window. Upon identifying a low HI window, which indicates an abnormal behavior of the system being monitored, based on a local Bayesian Network generated for the system being monitored, an Explainability Index (EI) for each sensor is generated, wherein the EI quantifies contribution of the sensor to the low HI. Further, associated component(s) is identified as contributing to abnormal/faulty behavior of the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Tata Consultancy Services Limited
    Inventors: Pankaj Malhotra, Vishnu T V, Narendhar Gugulothu, Lovekesh Vig, Puneet Agarwal, Gautam Shroff
  • Publication number: 20200175304
    Abstract: Various methods are using SQL based data extraction for extracting relevant information from images. These are rule based methods of generating SQL-Query from NL, if any new English sentences are to be handled then manual intervention is required. Further becomes difficult for non-technical user. A system and method for extracting relevant from the images using a conversational interface and database querying have been provided. The system eliminates noisy effects, identifying the type of documents and detect various entities for diagrams. Further a schema is designed which allows an easy to understand abstraction of the entities detected by the deep vision models and the relationships between them. Relevant information and fields can then be extracted from the document by writing SQL queries on top of the relationship tables. A natural language based interface is added so that a non-technical user, specifying the queries in natural language, can fetch the information effortlessly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Applicant: Tata Consultancy Services Limited
    Inventors: Lovekesh VIG, Gautam SHROFF, Arindam CHOWDHURY, Rohit RAHUL, Gunjan SEHGAL, Vishwanath DORESWAMY, Monika SHARMA, Ashwin SRINIVASAN