CONSENSUS AS AN EVALUATION FUNCTION FOR EVOLVABLE HARDWARE

Patent №

US 7,991,712

Granted

2011-08-02

Filed 2003

Owner

XILINX, INC.

Lab

AI components

5

ml · kr · planning · evo · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

10644162

An evolution approach involves the automatic generation of an evaluation function. According to an example embodiment of the present invention, a consensus result from a population of designs is used to evaluate designs in the population for fitness. New designs are evolved using the consensus result as an evaluation function, with newly-evolved designs replacing ones of the population of designs determined to be unfit. With this approach, automatic design evolution is carried out independently from a fixed evaluation function, which is sometimes susceptible to error.

AI classification

Evolutionary computation0.99
Machine learning0.99
AI hardware0.98
Knowledge representation0.96
Planning0.70
Natural language0.08
Vision0.02
Speech0.00

Ownership

XILINX, INC.

assignment · 144160785

Assignors

TRIMBERGER, STEPHEN M.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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