Patents by Inventor Raphael Dominik Hoffmann

Raphael Dominik Hoffmann 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: 20250086434
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for enabling artificial intelligence (AI) to evaluate attributes of items and use the results of the evaluation to provide relevant content. In one aspect, a method includes receiving, by an AI system and from a client device of a user, a first query of a user session. For each additional query, the AI system generates input data based on the additional query and data related to one or more previous queries received during the user session. The AI system provides the input data as an input to a machine learning model trained to output attributes of items and importance data indicating a relative importance of the attributes based on received inputs. The AI system selects one or more digital components based on the set of attributes and the importance data output by the model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2024
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Inventors: Dorothea Wiesmann Rothuizen, Vincent Leroy, Sai Meher Karthik Duddu, Raphael Dominik Hoffmann, Dan Beat Kluser, Iftekhar Naim
  • Publication number: 20240232637
    Abstract: Provided are computing systems, methods, and platforms that train query processing models, such as large language models, to perform query intent classification tasks by using retrieval augmentation and multi-stage distillation. Unlabeled training examples of queries may be obtained, and a set of the training examples may be augmented with additional feature annotations to generate augmented training examples. A first query processing model may annotate the retrieval augmented queries to generate inferred labels for the augmented training examples. A second query processing model may be trained on the inferred labels, distilling the query processing model that was trained with retrieval augmentation into a non-retrieval augmented query processing model. The second query processing model may annotate the entire set of unlabeled training examples. Another stage of distillation may train a third query processing model using the entire set of unlabeled training examples without retrieval augmentation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2023
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Inventors: Krishna Pragash Srinivasan, Michael Bendersky, Anupam Samanta, Lingrui Liao, Luca Bertelli, Ming-Wei Chang, Iftekhar Naim, Siddhartha Brahma, Siamak Shakeri, Hongkun Yu, John Nham, Karthik Raman, Raphael Dominik Hoffmann
  • Publication number: 20240135187
    Abstract: Provided are computing systems, methods, and platforms that train query processing models, such as large language models, to perform query intent classification tasks by using retrieval augmentation and multi-stage distillation. Unlabeled training examples of queries may be obtained, and a set of the training examples may be augmented with additional feature annotations to generate augmented training examples. A first query processing model may annotate the retrieval augmented queries to generate inferred labels for the augmented training examples. A second query processing model may be trained on the inferred labels, distilling the query processing model that was trained with retrieval augmentation into a non-retrieval augmented query processing model. The second query processing model may annotate the entire set of unlabeled training examples. Another stage of distillation may train a third query processing model using the entire set of unlabeled training examples without retrieval augmentation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Krishna Pragash Srinivasan, Michael Bendersky, Anupam Samanta, Lingrui Liao, Luca Bertelli, Ming-Wei Chang, Iftekhar Naim, Siddhartha Brahma, Siamak Shakeri, Hongkun Yu, John Nham, Karthik Raman, Raphael Dominik Hoffmann
  • Patent number: 9336299
    Abstract: A user's search experience may be enhanced by providing additional content based upon an understanding of the user's intent. Query tagging, the assigning of semantic labels to terms within a query, is one technique that may be utilized to determine the context of a user's search query. Accordingly, as provided herein, a query tagging model may be updated using one or more stratified lexicons. A list data structure (e.g., lists of phrases obtained from web pages) and seed distribution data (e.g., pre-labeled probability data) may be used by a graph learning technique to obtain an expanded set of phrases and their respective probabilities of corresponding with particular lexicons (e.g., semantic class lexicons). The expanded set of phrases may be used to group phrases into stratified lexicons. The stratified lexicons may be used as features for updating and/or executing the query tagging model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Ye-Yi Wang, Xiao Li, Raphael Dominik Hoffmann