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Patent2021

Processing sequences using convolutional neural networks

DeepMind Technologies Ltd · USPTO — US11080591B2 · 2021

The convolutional answer to sequence modelling, filed as the transformer was arriving. A good illustration that the architecture that wins is not the only one that worked.

Patent2020

Multi-task learning using knowledge distillation

Google LLC · USPTO — US10635977B2 · 2020

Distillation as claimed intellectual property, and the technique behind nearly every small model that punches above its size — including several on this shelf. Read it next to the on-policy distillation work here to see how far the idea has since travelled.

Patent2019

Attention-based sequence transduction neural networks

Google LLC · USPTO — US10452978B2 · 2019

The Transformer, as a granted patent. Useful for seeing how a landmark architecture is framed in IP terms — and a reminder that the research and the patent often diverge.

Patent2016

System and method for addressing overfitting in a neural network

Google LLC · USPTO — US9406017B2 · 2016

Dropout, patented. Worth a look because it is one of the clearest cases of a technique that spread through the field as a free idea while also existing as an enforceable claim.

Patent2015

Computing numeric representations of words in a high-dimensional space

Google LLC · USPTO — US9037464B1 · 2015

The word-embedding idea as granted intellectual property. Useful for seeing how a technique that became foundational infrastructure was framed in claim language — and a reminder that the paper and the patent are separate artefacts with different purposes.

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