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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.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 09, 2018

Filed:

May. 30, 2014
Applicants:

Universite DE Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, CA;

President and Fellows of Harvard College, Cambridge, MA (US);

Governing Council of the Univ. of Toronto, the, Toronto, CA;

Inventors:

Ryan P. Adams, Somerville, MA (US);

Roland Jasper Snoek, Cambridge, MA (US);

Hugo Larochelle, Sherbrooke, CA;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06N 5/04 (2006.01); G06N 7/00 (2006.01); G06N 99/00 (2010.01); G06F 17/11 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06N 5/048 (2013.01); G06F 17/11 (2013.01); G06N 7/005 (2013.01); G06N 99/005 (2013.01);
Abstract

Techniques for use in connection with performing optimization using an objective function. The techniques include using at least one computer hardware processor to perform: identifying, using an integrated acquisition utility function and a probabilistic model of the objective function, at least a first point at which to evaluate the objective function; evaluating the objective function at least at the identified first point; and updating the probabilistic model of the objective function using results of the evaluating to obtain an updated probabilistic model of the objective function.


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