Patents by Inventor Simon Kohl
Simon Kohl 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: 20260212950Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for training a structure prediction neural network that comprises an embedding neural network and a main folding neural network. According to one aspect, a method comprises: obtaining a training network input characterizing a training protein; processing the training network input using the embedding neural network and the main folding neural network to generate a main structure prediction; for each auxiliary folding neural network in a set of one or more auxiliary folding neural networks, processing at least a corresponding intermediate output of the embedding neural network to generate an auxiliary structure prediction; determining a gradient of an objective function that includes a respective auxiliary structure loss term for each of the auxiliary folding neural networks; and updating the current values of the embedding network parameters and the main folding parameters based on the gradient.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2026Publication date: July 23, 2026Inventors: Simon Kohl, Olaf Ronneberger, Mikhail Figurnov, Alexander Pritzel
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Patent number: 12603147Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for training a structure prediction neural network that comprises an embedding neural network and a main folding neural network. According to one aspect, a method comprises: obtaining a training network input characterizing a training protein; processing the training network input using the embedding neural network and the main folding neural network to generate a main structure prediction; for each auxiliary folding neural network in a set of one or more auxiliary folding neural networks, processing at least a corresponding intermediate output of the embedding neural network to generate an auxiliary structure prediction; determining a gradient of an objective function that includes a respective auxiliary structure loss term for each of the auxiliary folding neural networks; and updating the current values of the embedding network parameters and the main folding parameters based on the gradient.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2021Date of Patent: April 14, 2026Assignee: GDM Holding LLCInventors: Simon Kohl, Olaf Ronneberger, Mikhail Figurnov, Alexander Pritzel
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Publication number: 20250232841Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for designing a protein by jointly generating an amino acid sequence and a structure of the protein. In one aspect, a method comprises: generating data defining the amino acid sequence and the structure of the protein using a protein design neural network, comprising, for a plurality of positions in the amino acid sequence: receiving the current representation of the protein as of the current position: processing the current representation of the protein using the protein design neural network to generate design data for the current position that comprises: (i) data identifying an amino acid at the current position, and (ii) a set of structure parameters for the current position; and updating the current representation of the protein using the design data for the current position.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2022Publication date: July 17, 2025Inventors: Simon Kohl, John Jumper, Andrew W. Senior, Vinicius Zambaldi, Rosalia Galiazzi Schneider, Russell James Bates, Gabriella Hayley Stanton, Robert David Fergus, David La, David William Saxton, Fabian Bernd Fuchs
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Patent number: 12288393Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for training a neural network to (i) generate accurate network outputs for a machine learning task and (ii) generate intermediate outputs that can be used to reliably classify out-of-distribution inputs.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2021Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Rudy Bunel, Jim Huibrecht Winkens, Abhijit Guha Roy, Olaf Ronneberger, Seyed Mohammadali Eslami, Ali Taylan Cemgil, Simon Kohl
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Publication number: 20240120022Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for performing protein design. In one aspect, a method comprises: processing an input characterizing a target protein structure of a target protein using an embedding neural network having a plurality of embedding neural network parameters to generate an embedding of the target protein structure of the target protein; determining a predicted amino acid sequence of the target protein based on the embedding of the target protein structure, comprising: conditioning a generative neural network having a plurality of generative neural network parameters on the embedding of the target protein structure; and generating, by the generative neural network conditioned on the embedding of the target protein structure, a representation of the predicted amino acid sequence of the target protein.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2022Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Andrew W. Senior, Simon Kohl, Jason Yim, Russell James Bates, Catalin-Dumitru Ionescu, Charlie Thomas Curtis Nash, Ali Razavi-Nematollahi, Alexander Pritzel, John Jumper
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Publication number: 20240087686Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for unmasking a masked representation of a protein using a protein reconstruction neural network. In one aspect, a method comprises: receiving the masked representation of the protein; and processing the masked representation of the protein using the protein reconstruction neural network to generate a respective predicted embedding corresponding to one or more masked embeddings that are included in the masked representation of the protein, wherein a predicted embedding corresponding to a masked embedding in a representation of the amino acid sequence of the protein defines a prediction for an identity of an amino acid at a corresponding position in the amino acid sequence, wherein a predicted embedding corresponding to a masked embedding in a representation of the structure of the protein defines a prediction for a corresponding structural feature of the protein.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2022Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Alexander Pritzel, Catalin-Dumitru Ionescu, Simon Kohl
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Publication number: 20230395186Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for training a structure prediction neural network that comprises an embedding neural network and a main folding neural network. According to one aspect, a method comprises: obtaining a training network input characterizing a training protein; processing the training network input using the embedding neural network and the main folding neural network to generate a main structure prediction; for each auxiliary folding neural network in a set of one or more auxiliary folding neural networks, processing at least a corresponding intermediate output of the embedding neural network to generate an auxiliary structure prediction; determining a gradient of an objective function that includes a respective auxiliary structure loss term for each of the auxiliary folding neural networks; and updating the current values of the embedding network parameters and the main folding parameters based on the gradient.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2021Publication date: December 7, 2023Inventors: Simon Kohl, Olaf Ronneberger, Mikhail Figurnov, Alexander Pritzel
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Publication number: 20230298687Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for predicting a structure of a protein comprising one or more chains. In one aspect, a method comprises: obtaining an initial multiple sequence alignment (MSA) representation; obtaining a respective initial pair embedding for each pair of amino acids in the protein; processing an input comprising the initial MSA representation and the initial pair embeddings using an embedding neural network to generate an output that comprises a final MSA representation and a respective final pair embedding for each pair of amino acids in the protein; and determining a predicted structure of the protein using the final MSA representation, the final pair embeddings, or both.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2021Publication date: September 21, 2023Inventors: Mikhail Figurnov, Alexander Pritzel, Richard Andrew Evans, Russell James Bates, Olaf Ronneberger, Simon Kohl, John Jumper
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Publication number: 20230107505Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for training a neural network to (i) generate accurate network outputs for a machine learning task and (ii) generate intermediate outputs that can be used to reliably classify out-of-distribution inputs.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2021Publication date: April 6, 2023Inventors: Rudy Bunel, Jim Huibrecht Winkens, Abhijit Guha Roy, Olaf Ronneberger, Seyed Mohammadali Eslami, Ali Taylan Cemgil, Simon Kohl
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Patent number: 11430123Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating a plurality of possible segmentations of an image. In one aspect, a method comprises: receiving a request to generate a plurality of possible segmentations of an image; sampling a plurality of latent variables from a latent space, wherein each latent variable is sampled from the latent space in accordance with a respective probability distribution over the latent space that is determined based on the image; generating a plurality of possible segmentations of the image, comprising, for each latent variable, processing the image and the latent variable using a segmentation neural network having a plurality of segmentation neural network parameters to generate the possible segmentation of the image; and providing the plurality of possible segmentations of the image in response to the request.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2020Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: DeepMind Technologies LimitedInventors: Simon Kohl, Bernardino Romera-Paredes, Danilo Jimenez Rezende, Seyed Mohammadali Eslami, Pushmeet Kohli, Andrew Zisserman, Olaf Ronneberger
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Publication number: 20200372654Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating a plurality of possible segmentations of an image. In one aspect, a method comprises: receiving a request to generate a plurality of possible segmentations of an image; sampling a plurality of latent variables from a latent space, wherein each latent variable is sampled from the latent space in accordance with a respective probability distribution over the latent space that is determined based on the image; generating a plurality of possible segmentations of the image, comprising, for each latent variable, processing the image and the latent variable using a segmentation neural network having a plurality of segmentation neural network parameters to generate the possible segmentation of the image; and providing the plurality of possible segmentations of the image in response to the request.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2020Publication date: November 26, 2020Inventors: Simon Kohl, Bernardino Romera-Paredes, Danilo Jimenez Rezende, Seyed Mohammadali Eslami, Pushmeet Kohli, Andrew Zisserman, Olaf Ronneberger