Autoencoder AI Model for Personality Profile Prediction

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional personality questionnaires require users to answer a large number of questions, which can be time-consuming and may lead to inaccurate results due to user fatigue or loss of focus.

Innovation Solution

The development of an artificial intelligence model that can predict a user's likely answers to questions based on their prior answers, using a self-attention layer and autoencoder to encode and decode user data, thereby reducing the need for extensive question answering.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If conventional personality questionnaires require consumers to answer large numbers of questions to gather a full profile, then measurement precision of consumer personality and preferences is improved, but loss of time and user fatigue increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveaccuracy of consumer personality profileVSAvoidtime to complete questionnaire
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent uses autoencoders to create compressed latent vector representations (copies) of consumer questionnaire answers. Instead of requiring consumers to answer all questions, the system answers a subset of questions and uses the autoencoder to generate latent vectors that capture the essential personality profile information, effectively creating a compressed copy of the full profile data

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

Solution Approach 2:

The patent pre-trains autoencoder models on large datasets of complete questionnaire answers before deployment. This preliminary training establishes the latent space mapping and encoding/decoding capabilities, so that during actual use, the system can quickly generate accurate personality profiles from partial answers without requiring consumers to complete lengthy questionnaires in real-time

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Loss of time

If consumers rush through answering a large number of questions, then loss of time is reduced, but measurement precision deteriorates due to loss of focus

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvequestionnaire completion timeVSAvoidaccuracy of consumer answers
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of timeVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts only the most critical subset of questionnaire questions needed to capture essential personality traits. By identifying and removing redundant questions, the system reduces the total number of questions consumers must answer while maintaining measurement precision through the autoencoder's ability to reconstruct the full profile from the essential subset

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent transforms the questionnaire answering task from requiring complete explicit answers to all questions into generating latent vector representations that capture the essential information. This parameter change in the data representation space allows the system to maintain measurement precision while reducing the cognitive load and time required from consumers

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Measurement precision

If an artificial intelligence model uses a self-attention layer and autoencoder to predict user answers, then measurement precision is improved with fewer questions, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveaccuracy of predicted user answersVSAvoidcomplexity of AI model architecture
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent divides the AI model into distinct functional segments: an autoencoder component for encoding questionnaire answers into latent vectors, a self-attention layer for processing the encoded representations, and a decoding component for generating predicted answers. This segmentation allows each component to be optimized independently and facilitates understanding of the complex overall system

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces latent vectors as an intermediary representation between the input questionnaire answers and the output predicted answers. The self-attention layer operates on these latent vectors rather than raw answers, creating an intermediate processing space that simplifies the overall transformation and improves measurement precision while managing model complexity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS20250124276A1Methods for training and deploying an artificial intelligence model for use with predicting a task output
Publication Date: 2025.04.17 TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC
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AI summary

The present disclosure is directed to methods for training and using an artificial intelligence model for use with predicting a task output. The method includes generating a plurality of individual datasets, each of the plurality of individual datasets comprising data of at least one answer to at least one of a plurality of questions of each of a plurality of questionnaires, generating a first batch of individual datasets, the first batch of individual datasets comprising one or more of the plurality of individual datasets, inputting the first batch of individual datasets into the artificial intelligence model, and encoding the data of the first batch of individual datasets with an autoencoder.