CONTROLLING APPROXIMATIONS OF QUERIES

Patent №

US 10,496,643

Granted

2019-12-03

Filed 2016

Owner

MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC

AI components

5

ml · kr · planning · evo · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

15018843

One or more approximations of query output in a data analytics platform are controlled. The one or more approximations are controlled by generating values of error metrics associated with placements of samplers in one or more query execution plans associated with the query, and injecting a plurality of samplers into the query execution plans, using the determined values of the error metrics, in lieu of storing samples of input to the query prior to execution of the query.

AI classification

Machine learning1.00
Planning0.98
AI hardware0.95
Knowledge representation0.92
Evolutionary computation0.57
Natural language0.09
Vision0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC

assignment · 377370001

Assignors

KANDULA, SRIKANTH, CHAUDHURI, SURAJIT, DING, BOLIN, SHANBHAG, ANIL ATMANAND, VITOROVIC, ALEKSANDAR, OLMA, MATTHAIOS, GRANDL, ROBERT

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