Patents by Inventor Shuanghong Yang
Shuanghong 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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Publication number: 20240098341Abstract: A method for requesting a recommendation for content items in a recommender system is provided. The method includes extracting a user attribute from the recommender system, identifying multiple content items that match a user preference based on the user attribute, determining an interest value for the user on each content item based on an affinity between the user attribute and a content item attribute, and providing the user a list of content items ranked according to the interest value for the user. A system including a memory storing instructions and a processor configured to execute the instructions and cause the system to perform the above method is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2022Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventor: Shuanghong Yang
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Patent number: 11314519Abstract: Disclosed methods, systems, and apparatus, include computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for performing allocation of M resources among N users into K pools by solving a knapsack problem (KP) using a distributed computing system. The method includes: receiving data representing K global constraints and L local constraints of the KP; transforming the KP into a dual problem using K dual multipliers; decomposing the dual problem into N sub-problems; performing two or more iterations in solving the dual problem, wherein in one iteration, for each dual multiplier corresponding to a global constraint corresponding to a pool: determining an updated dual multiplier for the global constraint corresponding to the pool to be a non-negative threshold; and computing M decision variables of each of the N users corresponding to the updated dual multiplier in solving each of the N sub-problems corresponding to the each of the N users.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2021Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: Advanced New Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Xingwen Zhang, Feng Qi, Zhigang Hua, Shuanghong Yang
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Publication number: 20210373902Abstract: Disclosed methods, systems, and apparatus, include computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for performing allocation of M resources among N users into K pools by solving a knapsack problem (KP) using a distributed computing system. The method includes: receiving data representing K global constraints and L local constraints of the KP; transforming the KP into a dual problem using K dual multipliers; decomposing the dual problem into N sub-problems; performing two or more iterations in solving the dual problem, wherein in one iteration, for each dual multiplier corresponding to a global constraint corresponding to a pool: determining an updated dual multiplier for the global constraint corresponding to the pool to be a non-negative threshold; and computing M decision variables of each of the N users corresponding to the updated dual multiplier in solving each of the N sub-problems corresponding to the each of the N users.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2021Publication date: December 2, 2021Applicant: Advanced New Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Xingwen Zhang, Feng Qi, Zhigang Hua, Shuanghong Yang
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Patent number: 11132602Abstract: An example system includes prediction workers, training workers, and a parameter server. The prediction workers store a local copy of a machine-learned model and run the mode exclusively in serving mode. The training workers store a local copy of a machine-learned model and a local snapshot and run the local copy exclusively in training mode and compare the local model or state to the snapshot after training to send delta updates to the parameter server after training. The parameter server aggregates received delta updates into a master copy of the model, sends the aggregated updates back to training workers and provides two types of updates; a real-time update based on a comparison of the master model with a local snapshot, and a full update. The real-time update occurs at least an order of magnitude more frequently than the full update and includes a subset of the weights in the model.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2017Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Assignee: Twitter, Inc.Inventors: Zhiyong Xie, Yue Lu, Pengjun Pei, Gary Lam, Shuanghong Yang, Yong Wang, Ziqi Huang, Xiaojiang Guo, Van Lam, Lanbo Zhang, Bingjun Sun, Sridhar Iyer, Sandeep Pandey, Qi Li, Dong Wang
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Patent number: 11093253Abstract: Disclosed methods, systems, and apparatus, include computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for performing allocation of M resources among N users into K pools by solving a knapsack problem (KP) using a distributed computing system. The method includes: receiving data representing K global constraints and L local constraints of the KP; transforming the KP into a dual problem using K dual multipliers; decomposing the dual problem into N sub-problems; performing two or more iterations in solving the dual problem, wherein in one iteration, for each dual multiplier corresponding to a global constraint corresponding to a pool: determining an updated dual multiplier for the global constraint corresponding to the pool to be a non-negative threshold; and computing M decision variables of each of the N users corresponding to the updated dual multiplier in solving each of the N sub-problems corresponding to the each of the N users.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2020Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: Advanced New Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Xingwen Zhang, Feng Qi, Zhigang Hua, Shuanghong Yang
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Patent number: 10963264Abstract: Disclosed methods, systems, and apparatus, include computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for performing allocation of M resources among N users into K pools by solving a knapsack problem (KP) using a distributed computing system. The method includes: receiving data representing K global constraints and L local constraints of the KP; transforming the KP into a dual problem using K dual multipliers; decomposing the dual problem into N sub-problems; performing two or more iterations in solving the dual problem, wherein in one iteration, for each dual multiplier corresponding to a global constraint corresponding to a pool: determining an updated dual multiplier for the global constraint corresponding to the pool to be a non-negative threshold; and computing M decision variables of each of the N users corresponding to the updated dual multiplier in solving each of the N sub-problems corresponding to the each of the N users.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2020Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignee: Advanced New Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Xingwen Zhang, Feng Qi, Zhigang Hua, Shuanghong Yang
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Patent number: 10884813Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for performing allocation of M resources among N users into K pools by solving a knapsack problem (KP) using a distributed computing system that includes a number of individual solvers. The method includes: receiving data representing K global constraints and L local constraints of the KP; decomposing the KP into N sub-problems using K dual multipliers, each of the N sub-problems corresponding to a respective one of the N users and subject to the L local constraints w.r.t. the corresponding user, wherein N is in an order of billions or larger; determining the number of individual solvers for solving the N sub-problems; distributing the N sub-problems among the number of individual solvers; and solving the KP by the distributed computing system by performing two or more iterations.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2020Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: Advanced New Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shuanghong Yang, Xingwen Zhang, Zhigang Hua, Feng Qi
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Publication number: 20200341773Abstract: Disclosed methods, systems, and apparatus, include computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for performing allocation of M resources among N users into K pools by solving a knapsack problem (KP) using a distributed computing system. The method includes: receiving data representing K global constraints and L local constraints of the KP; transforming the KP into a dual problem using K dual multipliers; decomposing the dual problem into N sub-problems; performing two or more iterations in solving the dual problem, wherein in one iteration, for each dual multiplier corresponding to a global constraint corresponding to a pool: determining an updated dual multiplier for the global constraint corresponding to the pool to be a non-negative threshold; and computing M decision variables of each of the N users corresponding to the updated dual multiplier in solving each of the N sub-problems corresponding to the each of the N users.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2020Publication date: October 29, 2020Applicant: Alibaba Group Holding LimitedInventors: Xingwen Zhang, Feng Qi, Zhigang Hua, Shuanghong Yang
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Publication number: 20200341817Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for performing allocation of M resources among N users into K pools by solving a knapsack problem (KP) using a distributed computing system that includes a number of individual solvers. The method includes: receiving data representing K global constraints and L local constraints of the KP; decomposing the KP into N sub-problems using K dual multipliers, each of the N sub-problems corresponding to a respective one of the N users and subject to the L local constraints w.r.t. the corresponding user, wherein N is in an order of billions or larger; determining the number of individual solvers for solving the N sub-problems; distributing the N sub-problems among the number of individual solvers; and solving the KP by the distributed computing system by performing two or more iterations.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2020Publication date: October 29, 2020Applicant: Alibaba Group Holding LimitedInventors: Shuanghong Yang, Xingwen Zhang, Zhigang Hua, Feng Qi
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Patent number: 10698693Abstract: Disclosed methods, systems, and apparatus, include computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for performing allocation of M resources among N users into K pools by solving a knapsack problem (KP) using a distributed computing system. The method includes: receiving data representing K global constraints and L local constraints of the KP; transforming the KP into a dual problem using K dual multipliers; decomposing the dual problem into N sub-problems; performing two or more iterations in solving the dual problem, wherein in one iteration, for each dual multiplier corresponding to a global constraint corresponding to a pool: determining an updated dual multiplier for the global constraint corresponding to the pool to be a non-negative threshold; and computing M decision variables of each of the N users corresponding to the updated dual multiplier in solving each of the N sub-problems corresponding to the each of the N users.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2019Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding LimitedInventors: Xingwen Zhang, Feng Qi, Zhigang Hua, Shuanghong Yang
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Patent number: 10691499Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for performing allocation of M resources among N users into K pools by solving a knapsack problem (KP) using a distributed computing system that includes a number of individual solvers. The method includes: receiving data representing K global constraints and L local constraints of the KP; decomposing the KP into N sub-problems using K dual multipliers, each of the N sub-problems corresponding to a respective one of the N users and subject to the L local constraints w.r.t. the corresponding user, wherein N is in an order of billions or larger; determining the number of individual solvers for solving the N sub-problems; distributing the N sub-problems among the number of individual solvers; and solving the KP by the distributed computing system by performing two or more iterations.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2019Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding LimitedInventors: Shuanghong Yang, Xingwen Zhang, Zhigang Hua, Feng Qi
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Patent number: 10685065Abstract: Method, system, and programs for recommending content to a user. First information related to one or more previous users is first obtained. A model that maps from users to topics of interest is then established based on the first information related to the one or more previous users. Second information related to the current user is also obtained. One or more topics of interest are identified for the current user based on the model. Content is recommended to the current user in accordance with the one or more topics of interest for the current user. Eventually, an updated model is generated by integrating information associated with the current user with the model established based on the first information related to the one or more previous users. The information associated with the current user includes the second information related to the current user.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2012Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: HAIZHI WANGJU NETWORK TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.Inventors: Zhaohui Zheng, Xin Li, Rongqing Lu, Shuanghong Yang
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Patent number: 10678593Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for performing allocating M resources subject to L constraints. The method includes: receiving data representing L constraints, wherein each of the L constraints corresponds to a subset of M resources and restricts a respective maximum number C of resources to be selected among the subset of the M resources, wherein the L constraints has a hierarchal structure; determining a topological ordering of the L constraints; selecting all the M resources as an initial selection; removing resources from the initial selection by traversing each constraint in the topological ordering of the L constraints; and allocating the selected resources after traversing all the L constraints in the topological ordering of the L constraints.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2019Date of Patent: June 9, 2020Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding LimitedInventors: Xingwen Zhang, Feng Qi, Zhigang Hua, Shuanghong Yang
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Publication number: 20150112918Abstract: Method, system, and programs for recommending content to a user. First information related to one or more previous users is first obtained. A model that maps from users to topics of interest is then established based on the first information related to the one or more previous users. Second information related to the current user is also obtained. One or more topics of interest are identified for the current user based on the model. Content is recommended to the current user in accordance with the one or more topics of interest for the current user. Eventually, an updated model is generated by integrating information associated with the current user with the model established based on the first information related to the one or more previous users. The information associated with the current user includes the second information related to the current user.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2012Publication date: April 23, 2015Applicant: Beijing Yidian Wangju Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Zhaohui Zheng, Xin Li, Rongqing Lu, Shuanghong Yang