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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 24, 2022
Nec Laboratories Europe Gmbh, Heidelberg, DE;
Tobias Jacobs, Heidelberg, DE;
NEC CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A method for action determination includes training a first action prediction model with a desired outcome subset of a dataset having triples of: state; actions; and outcome. The first prediction model is configured to receive an input state and to output an action selection probability, which represents a prediction of a probability of achieving a first desired outcome for each action. The method further includes training a second action prediction model with the entire dataset to minimize a total loss over all actions. The second action prediction model is configured to receive the input state and to output an unconditional action selection probability of taking each action for the input state. The method can be practically applied to machine learning and artificial intelligence use cases including, but not limited to, medical/healthcare, email filtering, speech recognition, and computer vision, to optimize processes or support decision making.