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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 15, 2020
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Xiyang Dai, Seattle, WA (US);
Dongdong Chen, Bellevue, WA (US);
Yinpeng Chen, Sammamish, WA (US);
Mengchen Liu, Redmond, WA (US);
Ye Yu, Redmond, WA (US);
Zicheng Liu, Bellevue, WA (US);
Mei Chen, Bellevue, WA (US);
Lu Yuan, Redmond, WA (US);
Junru Wu, College Station, TX (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC., Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A neural architecture search (NAS) with a weak predictor comprises: receiving network architecture scoring information; iteratively sampling a search space, wherein the sampling comprises: generating a set of candidate architectures within the search space; learning a first predictor; evaluating performance of the candidate architectures; and based on at least the performance of the set of candidate architectures and the network architecture scoring information, refining the search space to a smaller search space; based on at least the network architecture scoring information, thresholding the performance of candidate architectures to determine scored output candidate architectures; and reporting the scored output candidate architectures. In some examples, the candidate architectures each comprise a machine learning (ML) model, for example a neural network (NN). In some examples, searching continues to iterate until stopping criteria is met, such as a specified maximum number of iterations or a set of candidate architectures achieves a performance goal.