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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 2024
Filed:
Jun. 17, 2019
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Weizhu Chen, Kirkland, WA (US);
Pengcheng He, Sammamish, WA (US);
Xiaodong Liu, Bellevue, WA (US);
Jianfeng Gao, Woodinville, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
This document relates to architectures and training procedures for multi-task machine learning models, such as neural networks. One example method involves providing a multi-task machine learning model having one or more shared layers and two or more task-specific layers. The method can also involve performing a pretraining stage on the one or more shared layers using one or more unsupervised prediction tasks. The method can also involve performing a tuning stage on the one or more shared layers and the two or more task-specific layers using respective task-specific objectives.