Patents by Inventor Min Xie

Min Xie 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: 20250124498
    Abstract: An online system presents a sponsored content page to a user in conjunction with a model serving system. The online system accesses a content page for a food item and identifies one or more sponsorship opportunities at the content page. The online system identifies one or more candidate sponsors for each sponsorship opportunity. The online system selects a bidding sponsor for the sponsorship opportunity from the one or more candidate sponsors and a candidate item associated with the bidding sponsor as a sponsored item. The online system provides a content page, a description of the sponsored item, and a request to generate a sponsored content page for the sponsorship opportunity to a model serving system. The online system receives a sponsored content page generated by a machine-learning language model at the model serving system and presents the sponsored content page to a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2024
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Inventors: Prithvishankar Srinivasan, Shishir Kumar Prasad, Min Xie, Shrikar Archak, Shih-Ting Lin, Haixun Wang
  • Publication number: 20250117442
    Abstract: An online concierge system receives unstructured data describing items offered for purchase by various warehouses. To generate attributes for products from the unstructured data, the online concierge system extracts candidate values for attributes from the unstructured data through natural language processing. One or more users associate a subset candidate values with corresponding attributes, and the online concierge system clusters the remaining candidate values with the candidate values of the subset associated with attributes. One or more users provide input on the accuracy of the generated clusters. The candidate values are applied as labels to items by the online concierge system, which uses the labeled items as training data for an attribute extraction model to predict values for one or more attributes from unstructured data about an item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2024
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Inventors: Shih-Ting Lin, Jonathan Newman, Min Xie, Haixun Wang
  • Publication number: 20250095046
    Abstract: An online system obtains a target food from an order for a user and alcohol preferences from an order purchase history. The online system generates a prompt for a machine learning model to request alcohol candidates based on the target food category. The prompt includes the alcohol preferences, and requests for each alcohol candidate, a pairing score indicating how well the target food category pairs with the alcohol candidate and a user preference score indicating how well the alcohol candidate aligns with the alcohol preferences. The online system receives as output the candidate alcohol items. Each alcohol candidate has the pairing score, the user preference score, and a textual reason for scores. The online system matches at least one alcohol item from a catalog with each alcohol candidate. A subset of alcohol items is presented to the user as a carousel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Shih-Ting Lin, Saurav Manchanda, Prithvishankar Srinivasan, Shishir Kumar Prasad, Min Xie, Benwen Sun, Axel Mange, Wenjie Tang, Sanchit Gupta
  • Publication number: 20250086395
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to utilizing a language model to automatically generate a novel recipe with refined content, which can be offered to a user of an online system. The online system generates a first prompt for input into a large language model (LLM), the first prompt including a plurality of task requests for generating initial content of a recipe. The online system requests the LLM to generate, based on the first prompt input into the LLM, the initial content of the recipe. The online system generates a second prompt for input into the LLM, the second prompt including the initial content of the recipe and contextual information about the recipe. The online system requests the LLM to generate, based on the second prompt input into the LLM, refined content of the recipe. The online system stores the recipe with the refined content in a database of the online system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2023
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Inventors: Prithvishankar Srinivasan, Saurav Manchanda, Shih-Ting Lin, Shishir Kumar Prasad, Riddhima Sejpal, Luis Manrique, Min Xie
  • Publication number: 20250069298
    Abstract: An online concierge system trains a fine-tuned generative image model for distinct categories of items based on a generative image model that takes a textual query as input and outputs and an associated image. Training of the fine-tuned generative image model is additionally based on a small set of representative images associated with the various categories, as well as textual tokens associated with the categories. Once trained, the fine-tuned generative image model can be used to generate realistic representative images for items in a database of the online concierge system that are lacking associated images. The fine-tuned model permits the generation of different variants of an item, such as different quantities or amounts, different packaging or packing density, and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2023
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Inventors: Prithvishankar Srinivasan, Shih-Ting Lin, Min Xie, Shishir Kumar Prasad, Yuanzheng Zhu, Katie Ann Forbes
  • Publication number: 20250037323
    Abstract: An online system performs a task in conjunction with the model serving system or the interface system. The system generates a first prompt for input to a machine-learned language model, which specifies contextual information and a first request to generate a theme. The system provides the first prompt to a model serving system for execution by the machine-learned language model, receives a first response, and generates a second prompt. The second prompt specifies the theme and a second request to generate a third prompt for input to an image generation model that includes a third request to generate one or more images of one or more items associated with the theme. The system receives the third prompt by executing the model on the second prompt, provides the third prompt to the image generation model, and receives one or more images for presentation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Inventors: Prithvishankar Srinivasan, Shih-Ting Lin, Yuanzheng Zhu, Min Xie, Shishir Kumar Prasad, Shrikar Archak, Karuna Ahuja
  • Patent number: 12210591
    Abstract: An online concierge system receives unstructured data describing items offered for purchase by various warehouses. To generate attributes for products from the unstructured data, the online concierge system extracts candidate values for attributes from the unstructured data through natural language processing. One or more users associate a subset candidate values with corresponding attributes, and the online concierge system clusters the remaining candidate values with the candidate values of the subset associated with attributes. One or more users provide input on the accuracy of the generated clusters. The candidate values are applied as labels to items by the online concierge system, which uses the labeled items as training data for an attribute extraction model to predict values for one or more attributes from unstructured data about an item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Maplebear Inc.
    Inventors: Shih-Ting Lin, Jonathan Newman, Min Xie, Haixun Wang
  • Patent number: 12205157
    Abstract: This application relates to apparatus and methods for providing recommended items based on a search request. In some examples, a computing device determines a plurality of items for recommendation based on an item type in the search request from a user. The computing device then determines a model variant from a plurality of variants for each item based on a requested variant in the search request. The computing device generates item recommendations by modifying an item title for each of the plurality of items to indicate the corresponding model variant. The computing device then presents the item recommendations for the user's perusal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Qianwen Xie, Shirong Xue, Behnoush Abdollahi, Rahul D. Sharnagat, Lili Yuan, Min Xie
  • Patent number: 12204614
    Abstract: An online concierge system trains a classification model as a domain adversarial neural network from training data labeled with source classes from a source domain that do not overlap with target classes from a target domain output by the classification model. The online concierge system maps one or more source classes to a target class. The classification model extracts features from an image, classifies whether an image is from the source domain or the target domain, and predicts a target class for an image from the extracted features. The classification model includes a gradient reversal layer between feature extraction layers and the domain classifier that is used during training, so the feature extraction layers extract domain invariant features from an image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Maplebear Inc.
    Inventors: Saurav Manchanda, Krishnakumar Subramanian, Haixun Wang, Min Xie
  • Publication number: 20250005279
    Abstract: A computer system uses clustering and a large language model (LLM) to normalize attribute tuples for items stored in a database of an online system. The online system collects attribute tuples, each attribute tuple comprising an attribute type and an attribute value for an item. The online system initially clusters the attribute tuples into a first plurality of clusters. The online system generates prompts for input into the LLM, each prompt including a subset of attribute tuples grouped into a respective cluster of the first plurality. Based on the prompts, the LLM generates a second plurality of clusters, each cluster including one or more attribute tuples that have a common attribute type and a common attribute value. The online system maps each attribute tuple to a respective normalized attribute tuple associated with each cluster. The online system rewrites each attribute tuple in the database to a corresponding normalized attribute tuple.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2023
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Inventors: Shih-Ting Lin, Prithvishankar Srinivasan, Saurav Manchanda, Shishir Kumar Prasad, Min Xie
  • Patent number: 12180140
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and compounds for liquid phase oligonucleotide synthesis employing the use of small molecules with lipophilic groups. Methods for making an oligonucleotide by liquid phase oligonucleotide synthesis using the compounds described herein are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Hongene Biotech Corporation
    Inventors: Gaomai Yang, Min Xie, Hongrong Yang, Shengdong Wang, Aldrich N. K. Lau, Ruiming Zou, David Yu
  • Publication number: 20240378837
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses a method and an apparatus for stylizing a three-dimensional model, an electronic device, and a storage medium. The method for stylizing the three-dimensional model includes: acquiring a to-be-stylized three-dimensional model and a stylized target image; and rendering the three-dimensional model by using a predetermined network to acquire a two-dimensional rendered image and spatial feature parameters of a pixel, and stylizing a texture feature in the two-dimensional rendered image based on the spatial feature parameters and the stylized target image to acquire a stylized three-dimensional model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Inventors: Guangwei WANG, Xiaodong SONG, Min XIE, Jiaxin WANG
  • Publication number: 20240374306
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an ablation catheter, comprising: a catheter, a handle and a connector which are connected in sequence, wherein a plurality of electrodes are provided in sequence at a distal end of the catheter, each of the electrodes has a corresponding electrode lead, which passes through the catheter and the handle and is connected to the connector; the catheter comprises an insulated inner catheter, the electrodes are provided on the insulated inner catheter, an insulated outer catheter is provided between the plurality of electrodes, electrode leads of the plurality of electrodes are respectively provided between the insulated inner catheter and the insulated outer catheter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Inventors: Min XIE, Tuo ZHOU, Zhencai CAO, Yang YANG, Xiaokai ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20240228433
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and compounds for liquid phase oligonucleotide synthesis employing the use of small molecules with lipophilic groups. Methods for making an oligonucleotide by liquid phase oligonucleotide synthesis using the compounds described herein are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2023
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Inventors: Gaomai YANG, Min XIE, Hongrong YANG, Shengdong WANG, Aldrich N.K. LAU, Ruiming ZOU, David YU
  • Publication number: 20240176852
    Abstract: An online concierge system trains a classification model as a domain adversarial neural network from training data labeled with source classes from a source domain that do not overlap with target classes from a target domain output by the classification model. The online concierge system maps one or more source classes to a target class. The classification model extracts features from an image, classifies whether an image is from the source domain or the target domain, and predicts a target class for an image from the extracted features. The classification model includes a gradient reversal layer between feature extraction layers and the domain classifier that is used during training, so the feature extraction layers extract domain invariant features from an image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2024
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Inventors: Saurav Manchanda, Krishnakumar Subramanian, Haixun Wang, Min Xie
  • Patent number: 11978104
    Abstract: A server receives a plurality of product data entries from a plurality of retailer computing systems. Each product data entry includes a product identifier uniquely identifying a corresponding physical product and descriptive data of the corresponding physical product. A subset of the plurality of product data entries having a same product identifier is determined. An embedding vector representative of a product data entry in the subset is pairwise compared with each of respective embedding vectors representative of other product data entries in the subset other than the product data entry to compute respective vector similarity metrics. A pooled semantic similarity metric for the product data entry based on the computed respective vector similarity metrics. It is determined whether the product data entry is an outlier in the subset based on the pooled semantic similarity metric. A notification is transmitted to a client device of a user based on the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Maplebear Inc.
    Inventors: Saurav Manchanda, Min Xie, Gordon McCreight, Jonathan Newman
  • Patent number: 11971810
    Abstract: This application relates to systems and methods for automatically generating experiments based on experiment requests routed to micro-services (model sub-components) using a prefix-based routing mechanism. In some examples, experiment requests may parsed to determine lower layer services (e.g., components) whose properties need to be changed for a model iteration. Prefixes in requests may be used to route the experiment requests and portions thereof to appropriate services or layers for configuration at the micro-service level. Routing tables at each higher layer may be utilized to determine the correct sub-layers to redirect a request and/or portion thereof. At micro-service level, each micro-service may store and use a configuration table to match a received parameter in a request with a property and its corresponding value for the experiment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Rahul D. Sharnagat, Sreenivasa Prasad Sista, Min Xie
  • Patent number: 11947632
    Abstract: An online concierge system trains a classification model as a domain adversarial neural network from training data labeled with source classes from a source domain that do not overlap with target classes from a target domain output by the classification model. The online concierge system maps one or more source classes to a target class. The classification model extracts features from an image, classifies whether an image is from the source domain or the target domain, and predicts a target class for an image from the extracted features. The classification model includes a gradient reversal layer between feature extraction layers and the domain classifier that is used during training, so the feature extraction layers extract domain invariant features from an image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Maplebear Inc.
    Inventors: Saurav Manchanda, Krishnakumar Subramanian, Haixun Wang, Min Xie
  • Publication number: 20240104632
    Abstract: An online concierge system uses a co-engagement graph to assign attribute values to items for which those attribute values are uncertain. A co-engagement graph is a graph with nodes that represent items and edges that represent co-engagement between items. The online concierge system generates a co-engagement graph for a set of items based on item engagement data and item data for the items. The set of items includes items for which the online concierge system has an attribute value for a target attribute and items for which the online concierge system does not have an attribute value for the target attribute. The online concierge system identifies a node that corresponds to an unknown item and identifies a node connected to that first node that corresponds to a known item. The online concierge system assigns the attribute value for the known item to the unknown item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Creagh Briercliffe, Chuan Lei, Saurav Manchanda, Min Xie
  • Patent number: D1062646
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Dongguan Plugood Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hongjun Zhou, Shiming Chen, Min Xie, Jiang Liu, Zhiqiang Luo