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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2026
Filed:
May. 27, 2022
Google Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Carlos Riquelme Ruiz, Zurich, CH;
André Susano Pinto, Zurich, CH;
Basil Mustafa, Zurich, CH;
Daniel M. Keysers, Stallikon, CH;
Joan Puigcerver I Perez, Zurich, CH;
Maxim Neumann, Zurich, CH;
Neil Matthew Tinmouth Houlsby, Zurich, CH;
Rodolphe Jenatton, Berlin, DE;
Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating predictions about images. One of the systems includes a neural network comprising a sequence of one or more network blocks that are each configured to perform operations comprising: obtaining a block input that represents an intermediate representation of an input image; determining a plurality of patches of the block input or of an updated representation of the block input, wherein each patch comprises a different subset of elements of the block input or of the updated representation of the block input; assigning each patch to one or more respective expert modules of a plurality of expert modules of the network block; for each patch of the plurality of patches, processing the patch using the corresponding expert modules to generate respective module outputs; and generating a block output by combining the module outputs.