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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 03, 2023
Filed:
Aug. 25, 2020
Google Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Ruiqi Guo, Elmhurst, NY (US);
David Simcha, Jersey City, NJ (US);
Quan Geng, Jersey City, NJ (US);
Felix Chern, New York, NY (US);
Sanjiv Kumar, Jericho, NY (US);
Xiang Wu, Berkeley, CA (US);
GOOGLE LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Generally, the present disclosure is directed to systems and methods of quantizing a database with respect to a novel loss or quantization error function which applies a weight to an error measurement of quantized elements respectively corresponding to the datapoints in the database. The weight is determined based on the magnitude of an inner product between the respective datapoints and a query compared therewith. In contrast to previous work, embodiments of the proposed loss function are responsive to the expected magnitude of an inner product between the respective datapoints and a query compared therewith and can prioritize error reduction for higher-ranked pairings of the query and the datapoints. Thus, the systems and methods of the present disclosure provide solutions to some of the problems with traditional quantization approaches, which regard all error as equally impactful.