Patents by Inventor Longqi Yang
Longqi Yang 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).
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Patent number: 12586038Abstract: A system and method and for optimizing cross-team information flow in a communication network includes receiving, from a communication application, via a network, a plurality of candidate post items for display to a first user of an organization, each candidate post item being a post item published by another user of the organization and being a post that is accessible to the first user. A communication knowledge network graph which represents communication events that have occurred between users of the organization is then generated where each communication event is represented by a first node that represents a sender, a second node that represents a receiver and an edge that represents the communication event from the sender to the receiver.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2023Date of Patent: March 24, 2026Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Longqi Yang, Mengting Wan, Cao Lu, Jennifer Lynay Neville, Kiran Tomlinson
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Publication number: 20260064980Abstract: A data processing system implements a framework that utilizes in-situ user interactions as a source of feedback for improving the training of LLMs to generate outputs that align with user preferences. The framework includes a user preference evaluation pipeline analyzes in-situ user interactions with the LLMs and generates preference information that can be used to improve the training of the LLM to improve the alignment of the LLM with user preferences. The user preference evaluation pipeline includes a feedback signal identification unit that identifies explicit and/or implicit feedback provided by the users in response to content output by the LLM in response to a user prompt. The feedback signal identification unit estimates user satisfaction with a set of satisfaction rubrics and user dissatisfaction with a set of user dissatisfaction rubrics to generate user preference data that can be used to align an LLM with these user preferences.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2024Publication date: March 5, 2026Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Taiwei SHI, Jennifer Lynay NEVILLE, Sujay Kumar JAUHAR, Mengting WAN, Longqi YANG, Zhuoer WANG, Pei ZHOU
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Publication number: 20250390555Abstract: Various embodiments discussed herein relate to prompting a model, such as a Large Language Model (LLM), to ingest natural language clustering instructions and generate corresponding natural language clustering information, such as a cluster description and/or a cluster label without the need to generate any numeric text embeddings.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2025Publication date: December 25, 2025Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Mengting WAN, Jennifer Lynay NEVILLE, Longqi YANG, Tara Lynn SAFAVI, Sujay Kumar JAUHAR, Chirag SHAH, Georg Ludwig Wilhelm BUSCHER, Reid Marlow ANDERSEN, Sathish Kumar MANIVANNAN, Xiaochuan NI, Scott Joseph COUNTS, Siddharth SURI
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Patent number: 12399955Abstract: Various embodiments discussed herein relate to prompting a model, such as a Large Language Model (LLM), to ingest natural language clustering instructions and generate corresponding natural language clustering information, such as a cluster description and/or a cluster label without the need to generate any numeric text embeddings.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2024Date of Patent: August 26, 2025Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Mengting Wan, Jennifer Lynay Neville, Longqi Yang, Tara Lynn Safavi, Sujay Kumar Jauhar, Chirag Shah, Georg Ludwig Wilhelm Buscher, Reid Marlow Andersen, Sathish Kumar Manivannan, Xiaochuan Ni, Scott Joseph Counts, Siddharth Suri
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Publication number: 20250131189Abstract: Personally-stylized content can be generated without fine tuning a model. A personally-stylized content generation method can include receiving a first request for first content to be stylized in a style of written prose previously produced by a user, applying a previously trained retriever model to the first request to obtain second content previously produced by the user resulting in obtained content, populating a prompt with the obtained content and the first request resulting in an augmented prompt, providing the augmented prompt to a large language model (LLM), receiving personally-stylized content from the LLM, the personally-stylized content including elements of the style of the written prose of the user, and providing the personally-stylized content to the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2023Publication date: April 24, 2025Inventors: Tara SAFAVI, Sheshera Shashidhar Mysore, Longqi Yang, Mengting Wan, Jennifer Lynay Neville, Steve S. Menezes
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Publication number: 20250094538Abstract: Various embodiments discussed herein relate to prompting a model, such as a Large Language Model (LLM), to ingest natural language clustering instructions and generate corresponding natural language clustering information, such as a cluster description and/or a cluster label without the need to generate any numeric text embeddings.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2024Publication date: March 20, 2025Inventors: Mengting WAN, Jennifer Lynay Neville, Longqi Yang, Tara Lynn Safavi, Sujay Kumar Jauhar, Chirag Shah, Georg Ludwig Wilhelm Buscher, Reid Marlow Andersen, Sathish Kumar Manivannan, Xiaochuan Ni, Scott Joseph Counts, Siddharth Suri
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Publication number: 20250094714Abstract: Systems and methods for open-domain dialogue segmentation and state tracking are provided. In particular, a computing device may obtain and analyze a dialogue in near real-time, generate a structured prompt template for a state prediction model based on the dialogue, and generate a structured output using the state prediction model based on the structured prompt template. The structured output includes a turn summary and state labels for each dialogue turn.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2023Publication date: March 20, 2025Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Tara Lynn SAFAVI, Sarkar Snigdha Sarathi DAS, Chirag SHAH, Jennifer Lynay NEVILLE, Mengting WAN, Longqi YANG, Reid Marlow ANDERSEN, Georg Ludwig Wilhelm BUSCHER
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Publication number: 20250086398Abstract: Methods, computer systems, computer-storage media, and graphical user interfaces are provided for efficiently generating and using intent taxonomies. In embodiments, training data, including data requests for information, is obtained. Thereafter, a model prompt to be input into a large language model is generated. The model prompt includes an instruction to generate an intent taxonomy, an indication of the training data to use for generating the intent taxonomy, and a taxonomy attribute desired to be used as criteria to generate a quality intent taxonomy. An intent taxonomy that includes user intent classes is obtained as output from the large language model. The intent taxonomy is analyzed to determine whether the intent taxonomy is valid. When the intent taxonomy is determined as valid, the intent taxonomy is provided for use in identifying user intent, and when the intent taxonomy is determined as invalid, the intent taxonomy is refined.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2023Publication date: March 13, 2025Inventors: Longqi YANG, Chirag Shah, Mengting Wan, Jennifer Lynay Neville, Tara Lynn Safavi, Scott Joseph Counts, Siddharth Suri, Ryen William White, Reid Marlow Andersen, Georg Ludwig Wilhelm Buscher, Sathish Kumar Manivannan, Leijie Wang, Sarkar Snigdha Sarathi Das, Ali Montazeralghaem
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Publication number: 20240428156Abstract: A system and method for automatically generating a workplan schedule for a team of employees in an organization includes receiving a request to create a workplan schedule for the team, the team including two or more team members who are employees of the organization and the workplan schedule identifying a work location for the team members. One or more collaborators for one or more of the team members is detected, where the collaborator is an employee of the organization who is not a member of the team and with whom at least one of the team members collaborate.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2023Publication date: December 26, 2024Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Chin-Chia HSU, Longqi YANG, Siddharth SURI
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Publication number: 20240354703Abstract: A system and method and for optimizing cross-team information flow in a communication network includes receiving, from a communication application, via a network, a plurality of candidate post items for display to a first user of an organization, each candidate post item being a post item published by another user of the organization and being a post that is accessible to the first user. A communication knowledge network graph which represents communication events that have occurred between users of the organization is then generated where each communication event is represented by a first node that represents a sender, a second node that represents a receiver and an edge that represents the communication event from the sender to the receiver.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2023Publication date: October 24, 2024Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Longqi YANG, Mengting WAN, Cao LU, Jennifer Lynay NEVILLE, Kiran TOMLINSON
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Patent number: 11983649Abstract: An enterprise system server, a computer-readable storage medium, and a method for targeted training of inductive multi-organization recommendation models for enterprise applications are described herein. The method includes receiving enterprise application data from remote organization computing systems executing the enterprise application, training per-organization recommendation models for a subset of the organizations, and validating each per-organization recommendation model on enterprise application data corresponding to one or more other organizations.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2021Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Kiran Tomlinson, Longqi Yang, Mengting Wan, Cao Lu, Brent Jaron Hecht, Jaime Teevan
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Patent number: 11710139Abstract: A computing system, computer-readable storage medium, and method for individual treatment effect (ITE) estimation under high-order interference in hypergraphs are described herein. The method includes accessing, via a processor, a hypergraph dataset including multi-way interactions among nodes within each hyperedge of a corresponding hypergraph, where the hypergraph dataset corresponds to a treatment assignment for each node. The method includes performing representation learning on the hypergraph dataset to control for confounders corresponding to features of each node and to learn a confounder representation for each node. The method also includes modeling a high-order interference representation for each node by propagating the learned confounder representation and the treatment assignment for each node through a hypergraph neural network.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2022Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Mengting Wan, Jing Ma, Longqi Yang, Brent Jaron Hecht, Jaime Teevan
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Publication number: 20230128832Abstract: An enterprise system server, a computer-readable storage medium, and a method for targeted training of inductive multi-organization recommendation models for enterprise applications are described herein. The method includes receiving enterprise application data from remote organization computing systems executing the enterprise application, training per-organization recommendation models for a subset of the organizations, and validating each per-organization recommendation model on enterprise application data corresponding to one or more other organizations.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2021Publication date: April 27, 2023Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Kiran TOMLINSON, Longqi YANG, Mengting WAN, Cao LU, Brent Jaron HECHT, Jaime TEEVAN
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Patent number: 11636394Abstract: The present concepts relate to a differentiable user-item co-clustering (“DUICC”) model for recommendation and co-clustering. Users' interaction with items (e.g., content) may be centered around information co-clusters—groups of items and users that exhibit common consumption behavior. The DUICC model may learn fine-grained co-cluster structures of items and users based on their interaction data. The DUICC model can then leverage the learned latent co-cluster structures to calculate preference stores of the items for a user. The top scoring items may be presented to the user as recommendations.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2020Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Longqi Yang, Tobias Benjamin Schnabel, Paul Nathan Bennett, Susan Theresa Dumais
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Publication number: 20220036265Abstract: Methods, computer systems, computer-storage media, and graphical user interfaces are provided for enhancing remote work productivity data. In one embodiment, worker data is obtained for a set of target workers and a set of control workers. The target workers are generally identified as working in the office prior to a treatment date and working remote after a treatment date, and the control workers are generally identified as working remote before and after the treatment date. Thereafter, an effect of working remotely is determined using a difference-in-differences model that measures differences in observational changes between the set of target workers and the set of control workers measured before and after the treatment date. The effect of working remotely can be used to generate a generating a productivity score indicating an extent of productivity in relation to the set of target workers.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2020Publication date: February 3, 2022Inventors: Longqi YANG, Sonia Patricia JAFFE, David Michael HOLTZ, Siddharth SURI, Shilpi SINHA, Jeffrey Michael WESTON, Connor Michael JOYCE, Neha Parikh SHAH, Kevin Scott SHERMAN, Chia-Jung LEE, Brent Jaron HECHT, Jaime TEEVAN
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Publication number: 20210406761Abstract: The present concepts relate to a differentiable user-item co-clustering (“DUICC”) model for recommendation and co-clustering. Users' interaction with items (e.g., content) may be centered around information co-clusters—groups of items and users that exhibit common consumption behavior. The DUICC model may learn fine-grained co-cluster structures of items and users based on their interaction data. The DUICC model can then leverage the learned latent co-cluster structures to calculate preference stores of the items for a user. The top scoring items may be presented to the user as recommendations.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2020Publication date: December 30, 2021Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Longqi Yang, Tobias Benjamin Schnabel, Paul Nathan Bennett, Susan Theresa Dumais
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Patent number: 10762135Abstract: A digital medium environment includes an asset processing application that performs editing of assets. A projection function is trained using pairs of actions pertaining to software edits, and assets resulting from the actions to learn a joint embedding between the actions and the assets. The projection function is used in the asset processing application to recommend software actions to create an asset, and also to recommend assets to demonstrate the effects of software actions. Recommendations are based on ranking distance measures that measure distances between actions representations and asset representations in a vector space.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2016Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: Adobe Inc.Inventors: Matthew Douglas Hoffman, Longqi Yang, Hailin Jin, Chen Fang
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Patent number: 10614381Abstract: This disclosure involves personalizing user experiences with electronic content based on application usage data. For example, a user representation model that facilitates content recommendations is iteratively trained with action histories from a content manipulation application. Each iteration involves selecting, from an action history for a particular user, an action sequence including a target action. An initial output is computed in each iteration by applying a probability function to the selected action sequence and a user representation vector for the particular user. The user representation vector is adjusted to maximize an output that is generated by applying the probability function to the action sequence and the user representation vector. This iterative training process generates a user representation model, which includes a set of adjusted user representation vectors, that facilitates content recommendations corresponding to users' usage pattern in the content manipulation application.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2016Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: Adobe Inc.Inventors: Matthew Hoffman, Longqi Yang, Hailin Jin, Chen Fang
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Publication number: 20180174070Abstract: This disclosure involves personalizing user experiences with electronic content based on application usage data. For example, a user representation model that facilitates content recommendations is iteratively trained with action histories from a content manipulation application. Each iteration involves selecting, from an action history for a particular user, an action sequence including a target action. An initial output is computed in each iteration by applying a probability function to the selected action sequence and a user representation vector for the particular user. The user representation vector is adjusted to maximize an output that is generated by applying the probability function to the action sequence and the user representation vector. This iterative training process generates a user representation model, which includes a set of adjusted user representation vectors, that facilitates content recommendations corresponding to users' usage pattern in the content manipulation application.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2016Publication date: June 21, 2018Inventors: MATTHEW HOFFMAN, LONGQI YANG, HAILIN JIN, CHEN FANG
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Publication number: 20180143988Abstract: A digital medium environment includes an asset processing application that performs editing of assets. A projection function is trained using pairs of actions pertaining to software edits, and assets resulting from the actions to learn a joint embedding between the actions and the assets. The projection function is used in the asset processing application to recommend software actions to create an asset, and also to recommend assets to demonstrate the effects of software actions. Recommendations are based on ranking distance measures that measure distances between actions representations and asset representations in a vector space.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2016Publication date: May 24, 2018Applicant: Adobe Systems IncorporatedInventors: Matthew Douglas Hoffman, Longqi Yang, Hailin Jin, Chen Fang