Patents by Inventor Halley Vance

Halley Vance 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: 12505027
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer-program product includes obtaining, via an application programming interface (API), a test object that includes application usage data of a deployed AI application for a target time span, executing, in real-time by one or more computer processors, one or more application behavior tests that assess an operational behavior of the deployed AI application, detecting, by the one or more computer processors, that a misbehavior occurred in the deployed AI application during the target time span and one or more deviant features contributing to the misbehavior in response to executing the one or more application behavior tests, and returning, by the one or more computer processors, the one or more deviant features contributing to the misbehavior to a subscribing entity associated with the deployed AI application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2025
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2025
    Assignee: Distributional, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael McCourt, Renaud Bourassa-Denis, Keith Laban, Olivia Kim, Ian Dewancker, Bolong Cheng, Halley Vance, Scott Clark
  • Publication number: 20250370908
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer-program product includes obtaining, via an application programming interface (API), a test object that includes application usage data of a deployed AI application for a target time span, executing, in real-time by one or more computer processors, one or more application behavior tests that assess an operational behavior of the deployed AI application, detecting, by the one or more computer processors, that a misbehavior occurred in the deployed AI application during the target time span and one or more deviant features contributing to the misbehavior in response to executing the one or more application behavior tests, and returning, by the one or more computer processors, the one or more deviant features contributing to the misbehavior to a subscribing entity associated with the deployed AI application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2025
    Publication date: December 4, 2025
    Applicant: Distributional, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael McCourt, Renaud Bourassa-Denis, Keith Laban, Olivia Kim, Ian Dewancker, Bolong Cheng, Halley Vance, Scott Clark
  • Patent number: 12033036
    Abstract: Systems and methods for tuning hyperparameters of a model include receiving a tuning request for tuning hyperparameters, the tuning request includes a first and a second objective function for the machine learning model. The first and second objective functions may output metric values that do not improve uniformly. Systems and methods additionally include defining a joint tuning function that is based on a combination of the first and second objective functions; executing a tuning operation; identifying a Pareto efficient frontier curve defined by a plurality of distinct hyperparameter values; applying metric thresholds to the Pareto efficient frontier curve; demarcating the Pareto efficient frontier curve into at least a first infeasible section and a second feasible section; searching the second feasible section of the Pareto efficient frontier curve for one or more proposed hyperparameter values; and identifying at least a first set of proposed hyperparameter values based on the search.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Michael McCourt, Bolong Cheng, Taylor Jackie Spriggs, Halley Vance, Olivia Kim, Ben Hsu, Sarth Frey, Patrick Hayes, Scott Clark
  • Publication number: 20210034924
    Abstract: Systems and methods for tuning hyperparameters of a model include receiving a tuning request for tuning hyperparameters, the tuning request includes a first and a second objective function for the machine learning model. The first and second objective functions may output metric values that do not improve uniformly. Systems and methods additionally include defining a joint tuning function that is based on a combination of the first and second objective functions; executing a tuning operation; identifying a Pareto efficient frontier curve defined by a plurality of distinct hyperparameter values; applying metric thresholds to the Pareto efficient frontier curve; demarcating the Pareto efficient frontier curve into at least a first infeasible section and a second feasible section; searching the second feasible section of the Pareto efficient frontier curve for one or more proposed hyperparameter values; and identifying at least a first set of proposed hyperparameter values based on the search.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Inventors: Michael McCourt, Bolong Cheng, Taylor Jackle Spriggs, Halley Vance, Olivia Kim, Ben Hsu, Sarth Frey, Patrick Hayes, Scott Clark