Patents by Inventor Tom Sercu

Tom Sercu 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).

  • Patent number: 11645555
    Abstract: A machine learning system that implements Sobolev Independence Criterion (SIC) for feature selection is provided. The system receives a dataset including pairings of stimuli and responses. Each stimulus includes multiple features. The system generates a correctly paired sample of stimuli and responses from the dataset by pairing stimuli and responses according to the pairings of stimuli and responses in the dataset. The system generates an alternatively paired sample of stimuli and responses from the dataset by pairing stimuli and responses differently than the pairings of stimuli and responses in the dataset. The system determines a witness function and a feature importance distribution across the features that optimizes a cost function that is evaluated based on the correctly paired and alternatively paired samples of the dataset. The system selects one or more features based on the computed feature importance distribution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Youssef Mroueh, Tom Sercu, Mattia Rigotti, Inkit Padhi, Cicero Nogueira Dos Santos
  • Patent number: 11373760
    Abstract: A machine learning system receives a witness function that is determined based on an initial sample of a dataset comprising multiple pairs of stimuli and responses. Each stimulus includes multiple features. The system receives a holdout sample of the dataset comprising one or more pairs of stimuli and responses that are not used to determine the witness function. The system generates a simulated sample based on the holdout sample. Values of a particular feature of the stimuli of the simulated sample are predicted based on values of features other than the particular feature of the stimuli of the simulated sample. The system applies the holdout sample to the witness function to obtain a first result. The system applies the simulated sample to the witness function to obtain a second result. The system determines whether to select the particular feature based on a comparison between the first result and the second result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Youssef Mroueh, Tom Sercu, Mattia Rigotti, Inkit Padhi, Cicero Nogueira Dos Santos
  • Publication number: 20210110285
    Abstract: A machine learning system that implements Sobolev Independence Criterion (SIC) for feature selection is provided. The system receives a dataset including pairings of stimuli and responses. Each stimulus includes multiple features. The system generates a correctly paired sample of stimuli and responses from the dataset by pairing stimuli and responses according to the pairings of stimuli and responses in the dataset. The system generates an alternatively paired sample of stimuli and responses from the dataset by pairing stimuli and responses differently than the pairings of stimuli and responses in the dataset. The system determines a witness function and a feature importance distribution across the features that optimizes a cost function that is evaluated based on the correctly paired and alternatively paired samples of the dataset. The system selects one or more features based on the computed feature importance distribution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2019
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Inventors: Youssef Mroueh, Tom Sercu, Mattia Rigotti, Inkit Padhi, Cicero Nogueira Dos Santos
  • Publication number: 20210110409
    Abstract: A machine learning system receives a witness function that is determined based on an initial sample of a dataset comprising multiple pairs of stimuli and responses. Each stimulus includes multiple features. The system receives a holdout sample of the dataset comprising one or more pairs of stimuli and responses that are not used to determine the witness function. The system generates a simulated sample based on the holdout sample. Values of a particular feature of the stimuli of the simulated sample are predicted based on values of features other than the particular feature of the stimuli of the simulated sample. The system applies the holdout sample to the witness function to obtain a first result. The system applies the simulated sample to the witness function to obtain a second result. The system determines whether to select the particular feature based on a comparison between the first result and the second result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2019
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Inventors: Youssef Mroueh, Tom Sercu, Mattia Rigotti, Inkit Padhi, Cicero Nogueira Dos Santos
  • Patent number: 10860900
    Abstract: Systems, computer-implemented methods, and computer program products for transforming a source distribution to a target distribution. A system can comprise a memory that stores computer executable components and a processor that executes the computer executable components stored in the memory. The computer executable components can comprise a sampling component that receives a source distribution having a source sample and a target distribution having a target sample. The computer executable components can further comprise an optimizer component that employs a neural network to find a critic that dynamically discriminates between the source sample and the target sample, while constraining a gradient of the neural network. The computer executable components can further comprise a morphing component that generates a first product distribution by morphing the source distribution along the gradient of the neural network to the target distribution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Youssef Mroueh, Tom Sercu
  • Publication number: 20200342361
    Abstract: A method, system and apparatus of ensembling, including inputting a set of models that predict different sets of attributes, determining a source set of attributes and a target set of attributes using a barycenter with an optimal transport metric, and determining a consensus among the set of models whose predictions are defined on the source set of attributes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2019
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Inventors: Youssef Mroueh, Pierre L. Dognin, Igor Melnyk, Jarret Ross, Tom Sercu, Cicero Nogueira Dos Santos
  • Publication number: 20200134399
    Abstract: Systems, computer-implemented methods, and computer program products for transforming a source distribution to a target distribution. A system can comprise a memory that stores computer executable components and a processor that executes the computer executable components stored in the memory. The computer executable components can comprise a sampling component that receives a source distribution having a source sample and a target distribution having a target sample. The computer executable components can further comprise an optimizer component that employs a neural network to find a critic that dynamically discriminates between the source sample and the target sample, while constraining a gradient of the neural network. The computer executable components can further comprise a morphing component that generates a first product distribution by morphing the source distribution along the gradient of the neural network to the target distribution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Youssef Mroueh, Tom Sercu