Patents by Inventor Karl Moritz Hermann

Karl Moritz Hermann 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: 20240320438
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for selecting actions to be performed by an agent interacting with an environment. In one aspect, a system includes a language encoder model that is configured to receive a text string in a particular natural language, and process the text string to generate a text embedding of the text string. The system includes an observation encoder neural network that is configured to receive an observation characterizing a state of the environment, and process the observation to generate an observation embedding of the observation. The system includes a subsystem that is configured to obtain a current text embedding of a current text string and a current observation embedding of a current observation. The subsystem is configured to select an action to be performed by the agent in response to the current observation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2024
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Inventors: Karl Moritz Hermann, Philip Blunsom, Felix George Hill
  • Patent number: 12099928
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for augmenting neural networks with an external memory. One of the methods includes providing an output derived from the neural network output for the time step as a system output for the time step; maintaining a current state of the external memory; determining, from the neural network output for the time step, memory state parameters for the time step; updating the current state of the external memory using the memory state parameters for the time step; reading data from the external memory in accordance with the updated state of the external memory; and combining the data read from the external memory with a system input for the next time step to generate the neural network input for the next time step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: DeepMind Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Edward Thomas Grefenstette, Karl Moritz Hermann, Mustafa Suleyman, Philip Blunsom
  • Patent number: 12008324
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for selecting actions to be performed by an agent interacting with an environment. In one aspect, a system includes a language encoder model that is configured to receive a text string in a particular natural language, and process the text string to generate a text embedding of the text string. The system includes an observation encoder neural network that is configured to receive an observation characterizing a state of the environment, and process the observation to generate an observation embedding of the observation. The system includes a subsystem that is configured to obtain a current text embedding of a current text string and a current observation embedding of a current observation. The subsystem is configured to select an action to be performed by the agent in response to the current observation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: DeepMind Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Karl Moritz Hermann, Philip Blunsom, Felix George Hill
  • Publication number: 20230289598
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for augmenting neural networks with an external memory. One of the methods includes providing an output derived from the neural network output for the time step as a system output for the time step; maintaining a current state of the external memory; determining, from the neural network output for the time step, memory state parameters for the time step; updating the current state of the external memory using the memory state parameters for the time step; reading data from the external memory in accordance with the updated state of the external memory; and combining the data read from the external memory with a system input for the next time step to generate the neural network input for the next time step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventors: EDWARD THOMAS GREFENSTETTE, Karl Moritz Hermann, Mustafa Suleyman, Philip Blunsom
  • Patent number: 11593640
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for augmenting neural networks with an external memory. One of the methods includes providing an output derived from the neural network output for the time step as a system output for the time step; maintaining a current state of the external memory; determining, from the neural network output for the time step, memory state parameters for the time step; updating the current state of the external memory using the memory state parameters for the time step; reading data from the external memory in accordance with the updated state of the external memory; and combining the data read from the external memory with a system input for the next time step to generate the neural network input for the next time step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: DeepMind Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Edward Thomas Grefenstette, Karl Moritz Hermann, Mustafa Suleyman, Philip Blunsom
  • Publication number: 20220318516
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for selecting actions to be performed by an agent interacting with an environment. In one aspect, a system includes a language encoder model that is configured to receive a text string in a particular natural language, and process the text string to generate a text embedding of the text string. The system includes an observation encoder neural network that is configured to receive an observation characterizing a state of the environment, and process the observation to generate an observation embedding of the observation. The system includes a subsystem that is configured to obtain a current text embedding of a current text string and a current observation embedding of a current observation. The subsystem is configured to select an action to be performed by the agent in response to the current observation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Karl Moritz Hermann, Philip Blunsom, Felix George Hill
  • Patent number: 11354509
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for selecting actions to be performed by an agent interacting with an environment. In one aspect, a system includes a language encoder model that is configured to receive a text string in a particular natural language, and process the text string to generate a text embedding of the text string. The system includes an observation encoder neural network that is configured to receive an observation characterizing a state of the environment, and process the observation to generate an observation embedding of the observation. The system includes a subsystem that is configured to obtain a current text embedding of a current text string and a current observation embedding of a current observation. The subsystem is configured to select an action to be performed by the agent in response to the current observation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: DeepMind Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Karl Moritz Hermann, Philip Blunsom, Felix George Hill
  • Publication number: 20210110115
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for selecting actions to be performed by an agent interacting with an environment. In one aspect, a system includes a language encoder model that is configured to receive a text string in a particular natural language, and process the text string to generate a text embedding of the text string. The system includes an observation encoder neural network that is configured to receive an observation characterizing a state of the environment, and process the observation to generate an observation embedding of the observation. The system includes a subsystem that is configured to obtain a current text embedding of a current text string and a current observation embedding of a current observation. The subsystem is configured to select an action to be performed by the agent in response to the current observation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Inventors: Karl Moritz Hermann, Philip Blunsom, Felix George Hill
  • Patent number: 10628735
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for selecting answers to questions about documents. One of the methods includes receiving a document comprising a plurality of document tokens; receiving a question associated with the document, the question comprising a plurality of question tokens; processing the document tokens and the question tokens using a reader neural network to generate a joint numeric representation of the document and the question; and selecting, from the plurality of document tokens, an answer to the question using the joint numeric representation of the document and the question.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Deepmind Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Karl Moritz Hermann, Tomas Kocisky, Edward Thomas Grefenstette, Lasse Espeholt, William Thomas Kay, Mustafa Suleyman, Philip Blunsom
  • Publication number: 20200005147
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for augmenting neural networks with an external memory. One of the methods includes providing an output derived from the neural network output for the time step as a system output for the time step; maintaining a current state of the external memory; determining, from the neural network output for the time step, memory state parameters for the time step; updating the current state of the external memory using the memory state parameters for the time step; reading data from the external memory in accordance with the updated state of the external memory; and combining the data read from the external memory with a system input for the next time step to generate the neural network input for the next time step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Inventors: Edward Thomas Grefenstette, Karl Moritz Hermann, Mustafa Suleyman, Philip Blunsom
  • Patent number: 10410119
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for augmenting neural networks with an external memory. One of the methods includes providing an output derived from the neural network output for the time step as a system output for the time step; maintaining a current state of the external memory; determining, from the neural network output for the time step, memory state parameters for the time step; updating the current state of the external memory using the memory state parameters for the time step; reading data from the external memory in accordance with the updated state of the external memory; and combining the data read from the external memory with a system input for the next time step to generate the neural network input for the next time step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: DeepMind Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Edward Thomas Grefenstette, Karl Moritz Hermann, Mustafa Suleyman, Philip Blunsom
  • Patent number: 10289952
    Abstract: A computer-implemented technique can include receiving, at a server, labeled training data including a plurality of groups of words, each group of words having a predicate word, each word having generic word embeddings. The technique can include extracting, at the server, the plurality of groups of words in a syntactic context of their predicate words. The technique can include concatenating, at the server, the generic word embeddings to create a high dimensional vector space representing features for each word. The technique can include obtaining, at the server, a model having a learned mapping from the high dimensional vector space to a low dimensional vector space and learned embeddings for each possible semantic frame in the low dimensional vector space. The technique can also include outputting, by the server, the model for storage, the model being configured to identify a specific semantic frame for an input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Dipanjan Das, Kuzman Ganchev, Jason Weston, Karl Moritz Hermann
  • Publication number: 20160358071
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for augmenting neural networks with an external memory. One of the methods includes providing an output derived from the neural network output for the time step as a system output for the time step; maintaining a current state of the external memory; determining, from the neural network output for the time step, memory state parameters for the time step; updating the current state of the external memory using the memory state parameters for the time step; reading data from the external memory in accordance with the updated state of the external memory; and combining the data read from the external memory with a system input for the next time step to generate the neural network input for the next time step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2016
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventors: Edward Thomas Grefenstette, Karl Moritz Hermann, Mustafa Suleyman, Philip Blunsom
  • Publication number: 20160358072
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for selecting answers to questions about documents. One of the methods includes receiving a document comprising a plurality of document tokens; receiving a question associated with the document, the question comprising a plurality of question tokens; processing the document tokens and the question tokens using a reader neural network to generate a joint numeric representation of the document and the question; and selecting, from the plurality of document tokens, an answer to the question using the joint numeric representation of the document and the question.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2016
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventors: Karl Moritz Hermann, Tomas Kocisky, Edward Thomas Grefenstette, Lasse Espeholt, William Thomas Kay, Mustafa Suleyman, Philip Blunsom
  • Publication number: 20160239739
    Abstract: A computer-implemented technique can include receiving, at a server, labeled training data including a plurality of groups of words, each group of words having a predicate word, each word having generic word embeddings. The technique can include extracting, at the server, the plurality of groups of words in a syntactic context of their predicate words. The technique can include concatenating, at the server, the generic word embeddings to create a high dimensional vector space representing features for each word. The technique can include obtaining, at the server, a model having a learned mapping from the high dimensional vector space to a low dimensional vector space and learned embeddings for each possible semantic frame in the low dimensional vector space. The technique can also include outputting, by the server, the model for storage, the model being configured to identify a specific semantic frame for an input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2016
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Applicant: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Dipanjan Das, Kuzman Ganchev, Jason Weston, Karl Moritz Hermann
  • Patent number: 9262406
    Abstract: A computer-implemented technique can include receiving, at a server, labeled training data including a plurality of groups of words, each group of words having a predicate word, each word having generic word embeddings. The technique can include extracting, at the server, the plurality of groups of words in a syntactic context of their predicate words. The technique can include concatenating, at the server, the generic word embeddings to create a high dimensional vector space representing features for each word. The technique can include obtaining, at the server, a model having a learned mapping from the high dimensional vector space to a low dimensional vector space and learned embeddings for each possible semantic frame in the low dimensional vector space. The technique can also include outputting, by the server, the model for storage, the model being configured to identify a specific semantic frame for an input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Dipanjan Das, Kuzman Ganchev, Jason Weston, Karl Moritz Hermann