OPTIMIZING A RANKER FOR A RISK-ORIENTED OBJECTIVE

Patent №

US 9,535,995

Granted

2017-01-03

Filed 2011

Owner

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

AI components

5

ml · kr · planning · evo · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

13323845

Technologies are described herein that pertain to optimizing a ranker component for a risk-oriented objective. Various definitions of risk are described herein, wherein risk is based upon variance in performance scores assigned to the ranker component for respective queries in a data store. Additionally, risk is optionally based upon variance in relative performance of the ranker component versus a baseline ranker component.

AI classification

Planning1.00
Knowledge representation1.00
Machine learning0.94
AI hardware0.77
Evolutionary computation0.59
Natural language0.34
Speech0.00
Vision0.00

Ownership

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

assignment · 273770143

Assignors

BENNETT, PAUL N., COLLINS-THOMPSON, KEVYN B., WANG, LIDAN

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

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