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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2025
Filed:
Feb. 03, 2022
Applicant:
Google Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Inventors:
Yi Tay, Singapore, SG;
Donald Arthur Metzler, Jr., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Dara Bahri, Lafayette, CA (US);
Mostafa Dehghani, Amsterdam, NL;
Assignee:
GOOGLE LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06N 3/048 (2023.01); G06F 40/20 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06N 3/048 (2023.01); G06F 40/20 (2020.01);
Abstract
The present disclosure provides echo-attention layers, a new efficient method for increasing the expressiveness of self-attention layers without incurring significant parameter or training time costs. One intuition behind the proposed method is to learn to echo, i.e., attend once and then get N echo-ed attentions for free (or at a relatively cheap cost). As compared to stacking new layers, the proposed echoed attentions are targeted at providing similar representation power at a better cost efficiency.