Patents by Inventor Thomas Edward Eccles

Thomas Edward Eccles 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: 20260140706
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating computer code using neural networks. One of the methods includes receiving description data describing a computer programming task; receiving a first set of inputs for the computer programming task; generating a plurality of candidate computer programs by sampling a plurality of output sequences from a set of one or more generative neural networks; for each candidate computer program in a subset of the candidate computer programs and for each input in the first set: executing the candidate computer program on the input to generate an output; and selecting, from the candidate computer programs, one or more computer programs as synthesized computer programs for performing the computer programming task based at least in part on the outputs generated by executing the candidate computer programs in the subset on the inputs in the first set of inputs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2026
    Publication date: May 21, 2026
    Inventors: Yujia Li, David Hugo Choi, Junyoung Chung, Nathaniel Arthur Kushman, Julian Schrittwieser, Rémi Leblond, Thomas Edward Eccles, James Thomas Keeling, Felix Axel Gimeno Gil, Agustín Matías Dal Lago, Thomas Keisuke Hubert, Peter Choy, Cyprien de Masson d’Autume, Esme Sutherland Robson, Oriol Vinyals
  • Patent number: 12585941
    Abstract: Methods, systems and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for training a policy neural network by repeatedly updating the policy neural network at each of a plurality of training iterations. One of the methods includes generating training data for the training iteration by controlling the agent in accordance with an improved policy that selects actions in response to input state representations. A best response computation is performed using (i) a candidate policy generated from respective policy neural networks as of one or more preceding iterations and (ii) a candidate value neural network. The candidate value neural network is configured to generate a value output that is an estimate of a value of the environment being in the state characterized by a state representation to complete a particular task. The policy neural network is updated by training the policy neural network on the training data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2026
    Assignee: GDM Holding LLC
    Inventors: Thomas William Anthony, Thomas Edward Eccles, Andrea Tacchetti, János Kramár, Ian Michael Gemp, Thomas Chalmers Hudson, Nicolas Pierre Mickaël Porcel, Marc Lanctot, Julien Perolat, Richard Everett, Thore Kurt Hartwig Graepel, Yoram Bachrach
  • Patent number: 12535995
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating computer code using neural networks. One of the methods includes receiving description data describing a computer programming task; receiving a first set of inputs for the computer programming task; generating a plurality of candidate computer programs by sampling a plurality of output sequences from a set of one or more generative neural networks; for each candidate computer program in a subset of the candidate computer programs and for each input in the first set: executing the candidate computer program on the input to generate an output; and selecting, from the candidate computer programs, one or more computer programs as synthesized computer programs for performing the computer programming task based at least in part on the outputs generated by executing the candidate computer programs in the subset on the inputs in the first set of inputs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2026
    Assignee: GDM Holding LLC
    Inventors: Yujia Li, David Hugo Choi, Junyoung Chung, Nathaniel Arthur Kushman, Julian Schrittwieser, Rémi Leblond, Thomas Edward Eccles, James Thomas Keeling, Felix Axel Gimeno Gil, Agustín Matías Dal Lago, Thomas Keisuke Hubert, Peter Choy, Cyprien de Masson d′Autume, Esme Sutherland Robson, Oriol Vinyals
  • Publication number: 20230244452
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating computer code using neural networks. One of the methods includes receiving description data describing a computer programming task; receiving a first set of inputs for the computer programming task; generating a plurality of candidate computer programs by sampling a plurality of output sequences from a set of one or more generative neural networks; for each candidate computer program in a subset of the candidate computer programs and for each input in the first set: executing the candidate computer program on the input to generate an output; and selecting, from the candidate computer programs, one or more computer programs as synthesized computer programs for performing the computer programming task based at least in part on the outputs generated by executing the candidate computer programs in the subset on the inputs in the first set of inputs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: Yujia Li, David Hugo Choi, Junyoung Chung, Nathaniel Arthur Kushman, Julian Schrittwieser, Rémi Leblond, Thomas Edward Eccles, James Thomas Keeling, Felix Axel Gimeno Gil, Agustín Matías Dal Lago, Thomas Keisuke Hubert, Peter Choy, Cyprien de Masson d'Autume, Esme Sutherland Robson, Oriol Vinyals
  • Publication number: 20220374683
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for selecting an optimal feature point in a continuous domain for a group of agents. A computer-implemented system obtains, for each of a plurality of agents, respective training data that comprises a respective utility score for each of a plurality of discrete points in the continuous domain. The system trains, for each of the plurality of agents and on the respective training data for the agents, a respective neural network that is configured to receive an input comprising a point in the continuous domain and to generate as output a predicted utility score for the agent at the point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Inventors: Thomas Edward Eccles, Ian Michael Gemp, János Kramár, Marta Garnelo Abellanas, Dan Rosenbaum, Yoram Bachrach, Thore Kurt Hartwig Graepel
  • Publication number: 20220261635
    Abstract: Methods, systems and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for training a policy neural network by repeatedly updating the policy neural network at each of a plurality of training iterations. One of the methods includes generating training data for the training iteration by controlling the agent in accordance with an improved policy that selects actions in response to input state representations. A best response computation is performed using (i) a candidate policy generated from respective policy neural networks as of one or more preceding iterations and (ii) a candidate value neural network. The candidate value neural network is configured to generate a value output that is an estimate of a value of the environment being in the state characterized by a state representation to complete a particular task. The policy neural network is updated by training the policy neural network on the training data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Thomas William Anthony, Thomas Edward Eccles, Andrea Tacchetti, János Kramár, Ian Michael Gemp, Thomas Chalmers Hudson, Nicolas Pierre Mickaël Porcel, Marc Lanctot, Julien Perolat, Richard Everett, Thore Kurt Hartwig Graepel, Yoram Bachrach