MONTE-CARLO APPROACH TO COMPUTING VALUE OF INFORMATION

Patent №

US 9,870,532

Granted

2018-01-16

Filed 2016

Owner

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

AI components

6

ml · nlp · kr · planning · evo · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

15156307

The subject disclosure is directed towards the use of Monte Carlo (MC) procedures for computing the value of information (VOI), including with long evidential sequences. An MC-VOI algorithm is used to output a decision as to balancing the value and costs of collecting information in advance of taking action by running prediction model-based simulations to determine execution paths through possible states, and processing the results of the simulations/paths taken into a final decision.

AI classification

Machine learning1.00
Evolutionary computation1.00
Planning1.00
AI hardware1.00
Knowledge representation0.91
Natural language0.62
Vision0.05
Speech0.00

Ownership

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

assignment · 443240761

Assignors

HORVITZ, ERIC J., EDEN, SEMIHA E. KAMAR

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

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