Patents by Inventor Ian Goodfellow

Ian Goodfellow 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: 11869170
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for training a neural network. One of the methods includes receiving a training image and a ground truth super-resolution image; processing a first training network input comprising the training image using the neural network to generate a first training super-resolution image; processing a first critic input generated from (i) the training image and (ii) the ground truth super-resolution image using a critic neural network to map the first critic input to a latent representation; processing a second critic input generated from (i) the training image and (ii) the first training super-resolution image using the critic neural network to map the second critic input to a latent representation; determining a gradient of a generator loss function that measures a distance between the latent representations of the critic inputs; and determining an update to the parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: David Berthelot, Ian Goodfellow
  • Patent number: 11790233
    Abstract: The specification describes methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating a larger neural network from a smaller neural network. One of the described methods includes obtaining data specifying an original neural network and generating a larger neural network from the original neural network. The larger neural network has a larger neural network structure than the original neural network structure. The values of the parameters of the original neural network units and the additional neural network units are initialized so that the larger neural network generates the same outputs from the same inputs as the original neural network, and the larger neural network is trained to determine trained values of the parameters of the original neural network units and the additional neural network units from the initialized values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Ian Goodfellow, Tianqi Chen, Jonathon Shlens
  • Patent number: 11651218
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for adversarial training of a neural network. One of the methods includes obtaining a plurality of training inputs; and training the neural network on each of the training inputs, comprising, for each of the training inputs: processing the training input using the neural network to determine a neural network output for the training input; applying a perturbation to the training input to generate an adversarial perturbation of the training input; processing the adversarial perturbation of the training input using the neural network to determine a neural network output for the adversarial perturbation; and adjusting the current values of the parameters of the neural network by performing an iteration of a neural network training procedure to optimize an adversarial objective function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Christian Szegedy, Ian Goodfellow
  • Patent number: 11514313
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing a data sample in response to a request for a data sample. In one aspect, a method comprises: receiving a request for a new data sample; until a candidate new data sample is generated that satisfies an acceptance criterion, performing operations comprising: generating a candidate new data sample using a generator neural network; processing the candidate new data sample using a discriminator neural network to generate an imitation score; and determining, from the imitation score, whether the candidate new data sample satisfies the acceptance criterion; and providing the candidate new data sample that satisfies the acceptance criterion in response to the received request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Samaneh Azadi, Ian Goodfellow, Catherine Olsson, Augustus Quadrozzi Odena
  • Patent number: 11416745
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for adversarial training of a neural network. One of the methods includes obtaining a plurality of training inputs; and training the neural network on each of the training inputs, comprising, for each of the training inputs: processing the training input using the neural network to determine a neural network output for the training input; applying a perturbation to the training input to generate an adversarial perturbation of the training input; processing the adversarial perturbation of the training input using the neural network to determine a neural network output for the adversarial perturbation; and adjusting the current values of the parameters of the neural network by performing an iteration of a neural network training procedure to optimize an adversarial objective function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Christian Szegedy, Ian Goodfellow
  • Patent number: 11354574
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for increasing the security of neural network by discretizing neural network inputs. One of the methods includes receiving a network input for a neural network; processing the network input using a discretization layer, wherein the discretization layer is configured to generate a discretized network input comprising a respective discretized vector for each of the numeric values in the network input; and processing the discretized network input using the plurality of additional neural network layers to generate a network output for the network input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Aurko Roy, Ian Goodfellow, Jacob Buckman, Colin Abraham Raffel
  • Publication number: 20220063089
    Abstract: Some implementations of this specification are directed generally to deep machine learning methods and apparatus related to predicting motion(s) (if any) that will occur to object(s) in an environment of a robot in response to particular movement of the robot in the environment. Some implementations are directed to training a deep neural network model to predict at least one transformation (if any), of an image of a robot's environment, that will occur as a result of implementing at least a portion of a particular movement of the robot in the environment. The trained deep neural network model may predict the transformation based on input that includes the image and a group of robot movement parameters that define the portion of the particular movement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventors: Sergey Levine, Chelsea Finn, Ian Goodfellow
  • Publication number: 20210407042
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for training a neural network. One of the methods includes receiving a training image and a ground truth super-resolution image; processing a first training network input comprising the training image using the neural network to generate a first training super-resolution image; processing a first critic input generated from (i) the training image and (ii) the ground truth super-resolution image using a critic neural network to map the first critic input to a latent representation; processing a second critic input generated from (i) the training image and (ii) the first training super-resolution image using the critic neural network to map the second critic input to a latent representation; determining a gradient of a generator loss function that measures a distance between the latent representations of the critic inputs; and determining an update to the parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: David BERTHELOT, Ian GOODFELLOW
  • Patent number: 11173599
    Abstract: Some implementations of this specification are directed generally to deep machine learning methods and apparatus related to predicting motion(s) (if any) that will occur to object(s) in an environment of a robot in response to particular movement of the robot in the environment. Some implementations are directed to training a deep neural network model to predict at least one transformation (if any), of an image of a robot's environment, that will occur as a result of implementing at least a portion of a particular movement of the robot in the environment. The trained deep neural network model may predict the transformation based on input that includes the image and a group of robot movement parameters that define the portion of the particular movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Sergey Levine, Chelsea Finn, Ian Goodfellow
  • Publication number: 20200401896
    Abstract: The specification describes methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating a larger neural network from a smaller neural network. One of the described methods includes obtaining data specifying an original neural network and generating a larger neural network from the original neural network. The larger neural network has a larger neural network structure than the original neural network structure. The values of the parameters of the original neural network units and the additional neural network units are initialized so that the larger neural network generates the same outputs from the same inputs as the original neural network, and the larger neural network is trained to determine trained values of the parameters of the original neural network units and the additional neural network units from the initialized values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventors: Ian Goodfellow, Tianqi Chen, Jonathon Shlens
  • Publication number: 20200257978
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for increasing the security of neural network by discretizing neural network inputs. One of the methods includes receiving a network input for a neural network; processing the network input using a discretization layer, wherein the discretization layer is configured to generate a discretized network input comprising a respective discretized vector for each of the numeric values in the network input; and processing the discretized network input using the plurality of additional neural network layers to generate a network output for the network input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Inventors: Aurko Roy, Ian Goodfellow, Jacob Buckman, Colin Abraham Raffel
  • Patent number: 10699191
    Abstract: This specification describes methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating a larger neural network from a smaller neural network. One of the described methods includes obtaining data specifying an original neural network and generating a larger neural network from the original neural network The larger neural network has a larger neural network structure than the original neural network structure. The values of the parameters of the original neural network units and the additional neural network units are initialized so that the larger neural network generates the same outputs from the same inputs as the original neural network and the larger neural network is trained to determine trained values of the parameters of the original neural network units and the additional neural network units from the initialized values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Ian Goodfellow, Tianqi Chen, Jonathan Shlens
  • Publication number: 20200104707
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing a data sample in response to a request for a data sample. In one aspect, a method comprises: receiving a request for a new data sample; until a candidate new data sample is generated that satisfies an acceptance criterion, performing operations comprising: generating a candidate new data sample using a generator neural network; processing the candidate new data sample using a discriminator neural network to generate an imitation score; and determining, from the imitation score, whether the candidate new data sample satisfies the acceptance criterion; and providing the candidate new data sample that satisfies the acceptance criterion in response to the received request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: Samaneh Azadi, Ian Goodfellow, Catherine Olsson, Augustus Quadrozzi Odena
  • Patent number: 10521718
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for adversarial training of a neural network. One of the methods includes obtaining a plurality of training inputs; and training the neural network on each of the training inputs, comprising, for each of the training inputs: processing the training input using the neural network to determine a neural network output for the training input; applying a perturbation to the training input to generate an adversarial perturbation of the training input; processing the adversarial perturbation of the training input using the neural network to determine a neural network output for the adversarial perturbation; and adjusting the current values of the parameters of the neural network by performing an iteration of a neural network training procedure to optimize an adversarial objective function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Christian Szegedy, Ian Goodfellow
  • Publication number: 20170334066
    Abstract: Some implementations of this specification are directed generally to deep machine learning methods and apparatus related to predicting motion(s) (if any) that will occur to object(s) in an environment of a robot in response to particular movement of the robot in the environment. Some implementations are directed to training a deep neural network model to predict at least one transformation (if any), of an image of a robot's environment, that will occur as a result of implementing at least a portion of a particular movement of the robot in the environment. The trained deep neural network model may predict the transformation based on input that includes the image and a group of robot movement parameters that define the portion of the particular movement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2017
    Publication date: November 23, 2017
    Inventors: Sergey Levine, Chelsea Finn, Ian Goodfellow
  • Publication number: 20170140272
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating a larger neural network from a smaller neural network. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining data specifying an original neural network; generating a larger neural network from the original neural network, wherein the larger neural network has a larger neural network structure including the plurality of original neural network units and a plurality of additional neural network units not in the original neural network structure; initializing values of the parameters of the original neural network units and the additional neural network units so that the larger neural network generates the same outputs from the same inputs as the original neural network; and training the larger neural network to determine trained values of the parameters of the original neural network units and the additional neural network units from the initialized values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2016
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Applicant: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Ian Goodfellow, Tianqi Chen, Jonathon Shlens
  • Patent number: 9454714
    Abstract: Systems and methods for sequence transcription with neural networks are provided. More particularly, a neural network can be implemented to map a plurality of training images received by the neural network into a probabilistic model of sequences comprising P(S|X) by maximizing log P(S|X) on the plurality of training images. X represents an input image and S represents an output sequence of characters for the input image. The trained neural network can process a received image containing characters associated with building numbers. The trained neural network can generate a predicted sequence of characters by processing the received image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Julian Ibarz, Yaroslav Bulatov, Ian Goodfellow
  • Patent number: 8965112
    Abstract: Systems and methods for sequence transcription with neural networks are provided. More particularly, a neural network can be implemented to map a plurality of training images received by the neural network into a probabilistic model of sequences comprising P(S|X) by maximizing log P(S|X) on the plurality of training images. X represents an input image and S represents an output sequence of characters for the input image. The trained neural network can process a received image containing characters associated with building numbers. The trained neural network can generate a predicted sequence of characters by processing the received image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Julian Ibarz, Yaroslav Bulatov, Ian Goodfellow