Multitask learning as question answering
Granted: March 28, 2023
Patent Number:
11615249
Approaches for multitask learning as question answering include an input layer for encoding a context and a question, a self-attention based transformer including an encoder and a decoder, a first bi-directional long-term short-term memory (biLSTM) for further encoding an output of the encoder, a long-term short-term memory (LSTM) for generating a context-adjusted hidden state from the output of the decoder and a hidden state, an attention network for generating first attention weights…
Systems and methods for a transformer network with tree-based attention for natural language processing
Granted: March 28, 2023
Patent Number:
11615240
Embodiments described herein provide an attention-based tree encoding mechanism. Specifically, the attention layer receives as input the pre-parsed constituency tree of a sentence and the lower-layer representations of all nodes. The attention layer then performs upward accumulation to encode the tree structure from leaves to the root in a bottom-up fashion. Afterwards, weighted aggregation is used to compute the final representations of non-terminal nodes.
Asynchronous search for big objects
Granted: March 28, 2023
Patent Number:
11615105
Techniques and systems for completing a database query. A time to complete a synchronous query in response to receiving an original database query is estimated by a database management system provided by one or more computing devices. A synchronous database query corresponding to the original database query is performed with the database management system if the estimated time to complete the synchronous query is less than a pre-selected threshold time. One or more asynchronous queries…
Methods and systems for appending data to large data volumes in a multi-tenant store
Granted: March 21, 2023
Patent Number:
11609895
In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for appending data to large data volumes in a multi-tenant store. These mechanisms and methods for appending data to large data volumes can enable embodiments to provide more reliable and faster maintenance of changing data. In an embodiment and by way of example, a method for appending data to large data volumes is provided. The method embodiment includes receiving new data for a database. The new data is written…
Automatically integrating security policy in mobile applications at build-time
Granted: March 21, 2023
Patent Number:
11611882
A mobile application development environment may be maintained in association with a computing platform. A request to produce a first mobile application with a first security policy may be processed. The first mobile application may be automatically produced. The first security policy may be integrated with the first mobile application during creation of the first mobile application. The first mobile application may be provided to a mobile application provider. The first security policy…
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for implementing consensus on read via a consensus on write smart contract trigger for a distributed ledger technology (DLT) platform
Granted: March 21, 2023
Patent Number:
11611560
Described herein are means for implementing consensus on read via a consensus on write smart contract trigger for a Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) platform in conjunction with a cloud based computing environment. According to a particular embodiment, there is a system having at least a processor and a memory therein, wherein the system is configurable with means for: operating a blockchain interface to a blockchain on behalf of a plurality of customers of the host organization, in…
Conversational bots platform
Granted: March 21, 2023
Patent Number:
11611492
Provided herein are system, methods and computer program products for using a bot server for initiating and controlling bot instances, specifically conversation bot instances at client devices for interacting with users associated with the client devices. The bot server may communicate with a remote cloud service providing bot services for initiating and operating the bot instances to retrieve logic metadata used to control the bot instances and may use this metadata to initiate and…
Test suite for different kinds of biases in data
Granted: March 21, 2023
Patent Number:
11610079
There is provided computer implemented method for detecting and reducing or removing bias for generating a machine learning model, comprising: prior to generating the machine learning model: receiving a training dataset, comprising target inputs, each comprising parameters and labelled with a corresponding target output, wherein at least one of the parameters of at least of the target inputs comprises a sensitive parameter indicative of the corresponding target input assigned to a…
Segment creation in a database system
Granted: March 21, 2023
Patent Number:
11609954
Described herein are systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products configured for actions to be performed on segments within a pipeline. The disclosed systems and techniques allow a user to select a data segment on a graphical user interface. The user may then utilize the data of the segment to perform one or more actions. Thus the data of the segment may be used to provide communications to parties contained within the data, manipulate the data segment based on the parties…
System, method and computer program product for maintaining data stored in a data structure
Granted: March 21, 2023
Patent Number:
11609896
There are provided mechanisms and methods for maintaining data stored in a data structure. These mechanisms and methods for maintaining data stored in a data structure can provide maintenance operations with improved efficiency, functionality, etc.
Mechanism for stream processing efficiency using probabilistic model to reduce data redundancy
Granted: March 21, 2023
Patent Number:
11609886
A method and system of data deduplication for data streams in a multi-tenant system. The method receives, at a data accuracy manager, an event from an activity tracking component, determine whether the event is recorded in a probabilistic model that tracks previously received events from the activity tracking component, where the probabilistic model can accurately identify the event has not been previously received with a possible false positive response where the event has been…
Authentication token refresh
Granted: March 14, 2023
Patent Number:
11606349
Techniques are disclosed relating to authentication token refresh. In various embodiments, a first of a plurality of instances of an application executing on the server system receives a request to provide content to a browser of a client device. The first application instance determines that an authentication token useable to provide the content has expired. The authentication token is maintained in a storage accessible to the plurality of application instances. The first application…
User authentication using multi-party computation and public key cryptography
Granted: March 14, 2023
Patent Number:
11606348
Techniques are disclosed relating to user authentication using multi-party computation and public key cryptography. In some embodiments, a server may receive, from a client, a request to authenticate a user to a service. The server may access key-pair information that includes, for a server key-pair, a first component of a server private key and, for a client key-pair, a client public key and a first component of a client private key. The server may generate a partial signature value…
Systems and methods for next basket recommendation with dynamic attributes modeling
Granted: March 14, 2023
Patent Number:
11605118
Embodiments described herein provide an attentive network framework that models dynamic attributes with item and feature interactions. Specifically, the attentive network framework first encodes basket item sequences and dynamic attribute sequences with time-aware padding and time/month encoding to capture the seasonal patterns (e.g. in app recommendation, outdoor activities apps are more suitable for summer time while indoor activity apps are better for winter). Then the attentive…
Private deep learning
Granted: March 14, 2023
Patent Number:
11604965
A method for training parameters of a student model includes receiving one or more teacher models trained using sensitive data. Each teacher model includes one or more intermediate layers and a prediction layer coupled to the one or more intermediate layers. The method includes receiving, from the one or more teacher models, one or more intermediate layer outputs and one or more prediction layer outputs respectively based on public data. Student model training is performed to train…
Sequence-to-sequence prediction using a neural network model
Granted: March 14, 2023
Patent Number:
11604956
A method for sequence-to-sequence prediction using a neural network model includes A method for sequence-to-sequence prediction using a neural network model, generating an encoded representation based on an input sequence using an encoder of the neural network model, predicting a fertility sequence based on the input sequence, generating an output template based on the input sequence and the fertility sequence, and predicting an output sequence based on the encoded representation and the…
Database and file structure configurations for managing text strings to be provided by a graphical user interface
Granted: March 14, 2023
Patent Number:
11604765
A computer-implemented database system as described herein includes a memory device and one or more processors coupled with the memory device. The one or more processors are configurable to create and maintain a folder structure for a user interface (UI) environment, wherein the folder structure includes: a feature folder that defines an application feature supported by the UI environment, the application feature having a UI component associated therewith, and the UI component having a…
Selectively publishing an event responsive to an operation on a database in a transaction which is rolled back or committed
Granted: March 7, 2023
Patent Number:
11599526
Implementations are described for selectively publishing an event responsive to an operation on a database in a transaction. Publishing the event is delayed or not delayed respectively, responsive to determining that a value of an attribute for the event indicates that publishing the event is to be delayed, or not to be delayed, until the transaction is rolled back or committed. If publishing the event is delayed, the event is published if the transaction is committed and discarded if…
Multitask learning as question answering
Granted: March 7, 2023
Patent Number:
11600194
Approaches for natural language processing include a multi-layer encoder for encoding words from a context and words from a question in parallel, a multi-layer decoder for decoding the encoded context and the encoded question, a pointer generator for generating distributions over the words from the context, the words from the question, and words in a vocabulary based on an output from the decoder, and a switch. The switch generates a weighting of the distributions over the words from the…
System and method for learning with noisy labels as semi-supervised learning
Granted: March 7, 2023
Patent Number:
11599792
A method provides learning with noisy labels. The method includes generating a first network of a machine learning model with a first set of parameter initial values, and generating a second network of the machine learning model with a second set of parameter initial values. First clean probabilities for samples in a training dataset are generated using the second network. A first labeled dataset and a first unlabeled dataset are generated from the training dataset based on the first…
