Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for compressing and decompressing data. In one aspect, an encoder neural network processes data to generate an output including a representation of the data as an ordered collection of code symbols. The ordered collection of code symbols is entropy encoded using one or more code symbol probability distributions. A compressed representation of the data is determined based on the entropy encoded representation of the collection of code symbols and data indicating the code symbol probability distributions used to entropy encode the collection of code symbols. In another aspect, a compressed representation of the data is decoded to determine the collection of code symbols representing the data. A reconstruction of the data is determined by processing the collection of code symbols by a decoder neural network.

Abstract: An encoder system can include a pixel grid generator to receive an image having a first dimension, generate a grid having a second dimension, add a plurality of points to positions on the grid, and map a plurality of pixels of the image to the plurality of points. The encoder system can include a color module to assign a color to each of the plurality of points using a color table, a triangulation module to generate a plurality of vertices based on the plurality of points and triangulate the grid using the vertices, and a compression module to compress the vertices as a set of compressed vertex positions and a set of vertex colors.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for content item distribution based on user interactions.

Abstract: Encoding and decoding occupancy information is disclosed. A method includes determining row sums for the region, determining column sums for the region, encoding, in a compressed bitstream, at least one of the row sums and the column sums, and encoding, in the compressed bitstream and based on a coding order, at least one of the rows and the columns of the region. The coding order is based on the encoded at least one of the row sums and the column sums. The row sums include, for each row of the region, a respective count of a number of locations in the row having a specified value. The column sums include, for each column of the region, a respective count of a number of locations in the column having the specified value. A location having the specified value is indicative of the occupancy information at the location.

Abstract: A method for encoding a current frame of a video includes jointly determining respective motion models for reference frames and encoding the current frame using the respective motion models. The reference frames are used for encoding the current frame. Jointly determining respective motion models for reference frames includes determining respective aggregated residuals for combinations of candidate motion models and selecting the combination of candidate motion models that corresponds to the smallest aggregated residual. The respective motion models correspond to the candidate motion models of the selected combination.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for determining content items for delivery to users based on imagery. One example method includes determining a location of a user or a location associated with a query submitted by the user, identifying imagery associated with the determined location, and determining one or more content items for delivery to the user based at least in part on the imagery.

Abstract: Methods, systems and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium for selecting keywords for resources are disclosed. In one aspect, a search query is received associated with a first user. A determination is made that the first user is a follower of an entity feed that is provided by a first entity and that is provided through a social network. A content item is selected having distribution parameters specifying that the content item is to be provided to users that are followers of the entity feed and that submit the search query. The selected content item is provided for the first user.

Abstract: Methods, and systems, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media for compressing data items with variable compression rate. A system includes an encoder sub-network configured to receive a system input image and to generate an encoded representation of the system input image, the encoder sub-network including a first stack of neural network layers including one or more LSTM neural network layers and one or more non-LSTM neural network layers, the first stack configured to, at each of a plurality of time steps, receive an input image for the time step that is derived from the system input image and generate a corresponding first stack output, and a binarizing neural network layer configured to receive a first stack output as input and generate a corresponding binarized output.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, including a method that comprises: determining a target geographic feature that has insufficient targeting information associated therewith, the target geographic feature defining a location; determining one or more similar geographic features to the target geographic feature, each geographic feature including targeting information, the determining based on shared excess queries that are shared between geographic features that are determined to be similar to the target geographic feature, wherein each excess query is a query associated with and exceeds an expected query count for each of the similar geographic features and the target geographic feature; attributing targeting information associated with at least one of the one or more similar geographic features to the target geographic feature; and serving content responsive to queries that relate to the target geographic feature based at least in part on the at

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention recite a method and system for providing visual cues in an interactive media response system. In one embodiment, at least one visual prompt for display on a thin device is generated. The visual prompt is then sent to the thin device where it is displayed.

Abstract: Systems, methods, devices, and computer program products provide social and interactive applications for mass media based on real time ambient-audio and/or video identification. In some implementations, a method includes: receiving descriptors identifying ambient audio associated with a media broadcast; comparing the descriptors to one or more reference descriptors; and determining a rating for the media broadcast based at least in part on the results of the comparison.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for predicting user interests. In one aspect, a method includes training a prediction model to generate a category prediction of a next query from a set of queries, the category prediction specifying categories to which a next query belongs, the prediction model comprising a plurality of prediction functions that each generate a category prediction of a next query, wherein the prediction functions include two or more of a time-based prediction functions that generate a category prediction based on the category data and a difference of submission times of the queries, a rank-based prediction functions that generate a category prediction based on the category data and a rank order by which the queries were received, and a category-based prediction function that generates a category prediction based on the category data.

Abstract: Various aspects of the subject technology relate to systems, methods, and machine-readable media for recommending a profile to a user of a social network are provided. A system may be configured to retrieve subscription rate information for a first profile of a social network and subscription rate information for a second profile of the social network, calculate a similarity score based on the subscription rate information for the first profile and the subscription rate information of the second profile, and provide, to a user of the social network, a recommendation to subscribe to the first profile based on the similarity score.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage medium, including a method for ranking content using location-based query log analysis. The method comprises: identifying a region defining an area of interest including identifying a plurality of content items that are associated with the region; evaluating query logs associated with users that submitted queries associated with the region to determine a ranking associated with the plurality of content items; receiving a request for content associated with the region; and providing one or more of the content items based at least in part on the ranking.

Abstract: Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to functions used for retrieving image results based on search queries. More specifically, image search queries can be pre-grouped or classified based on visual and semantic similarity. For example, a pairwise image similarity value for a pair of queries can be computed based on one or more of the sum of all of the overlapping the image results, the sum of the image distances between all of the pairs of images in the image results, and the rank of each of the images in the image results. The pairwise image similarity values can then be used to generate image query clusters. Each image query clusters can include a set of queries with high pairwise image similarity values. In some examples, a distance function can be determined for each image query cluster. This data can be used to provide image results.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus include computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage medium, including a method for updating graphs. Labels associated with nodes of a graph are identified, including designators describing an attribute associated with a given node. The graph is provided, wherein labels have been assigned to each node in the graph. An initial set of weights for the labels are assigned reflecting a magnitude of a contribution of an associated label to a characterization of a respective node. A portion of the labels are assigned based on a propagation from other nodes. A change is identified in the graph that, when propagated, will affect other nodes. Sparse matrices, generated to describe the change, contain nonzero entries only in rows wherein connection weights and/or labels have changed. A new graph is generated using the sparse matrices without having to recalculate weights for other nodes not affected by the change.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, including a method that comprises: determining a target geographic feature that has insufficient targeting information associated therewith, the target geographic feature defining a location; determining one or more similar geographic features to the target geographic feature, each geographic feature including targeting information, the determining based on shared excess queries that are shared between geographic features that are determined to be similar to the target geographic feature, wherein each excess query is a query associated with and exceeds an expected query count for each of the similar geographic features and the target geographic feature; attributing targeting information associated with at least one of the one or more similar geographic features to the target geographic feature; and serving content responsive to queries that relate to the target geographic feature based at least in part on the at

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage medium, including a method for ranking content using location-based query log analysis. The method comprises: identifying a region defining an area of interest including identifying a plurality of content items that are associated with the region; evaluating query logs associated with users that submitted queries associated with the region to determine a ranking associated with the plurality of content items; receiving a request for content associated with the region; and providing one or more of the content items based at least in part on the ranking.

Abstract: Methods, system, and apparatus, including computer programs are encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing content based on geographic location data. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a request from a website for a map segment corresponding to a particular location. Keywords are extracted from the website as targeting criteria for the particular location. The targeting criteria is associated with the particular location. A subsequent request for advertising content associated with the particular location is received. One or more advertising content items are selected based on the targeting criteria. The selected advertising content items are provided responsive to the subsequent request.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, including a method that comprises: determining a target geographic feature that has insufficient targeting information associated therewith, the target geographic feature defining a location; determining one or more similar geographic features to the target geographic feature, each geographic feature including targeting information, the determining based on shared excess queries that are shared between geographic features that are determined to be similar to the target geographic feature, wherein each excess query is a query associated with and exceeds an expected query count for each of the similar geographic features and the target geographic feature; attributing targeting information associated with at least one of the one or more similar geographic features to the target geographic feature; and serving content responsive to queries that relate to the target geographic feature based at least in part on the at