Digital Content Analysis With Deconfounded Multimodal Embeddings

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional systems for digital content analysis in high-dimensional multimodal scenarios, such as images and text, provide biased and misleading insights due to their reliance on correlation-based methods, failing to account for causal relationships.

Innovation Solution

A computing device employs an analysis system that extracts content components using machine learning models, reduces dimensionality with autoencoders, and generates deconfounded embeddings through conditional adversarial learning to provide predictive, descriptive, and prescriptive insights on digital content performance.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If correlation-based methods are used for digital content analysis, then the analysis process is simple and fast, but the insights provided are biased and misleading

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveanalysis speedVSAvoidinsight accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces conventional correlation-based mechanical analysis systems with a machine learning-based causal inference system. The machine learning model processes digital content through multiple layers to identify causal relationships rather than mere correlations, thereby providing accurate insights while maintaining computational efficiency through optimized processing architectures.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent transforms the analysis approach by changing the fundamental parameters of content representation and relationship identification. Instead of using traditional correlation metrics, the system employs machine learning models that process content through transformed feature spaces, enabling causal inference while maintaining analysis speed through efficient model architectures.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Device complexity

If conventional analysis methods are used, then the system complexity is low, but the ability to provide causal insights is insufficient

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesystem complexityVSAvoidcausal insight reliability
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the content analysis process into distinct processing stages: content extraction, feature transformation, causal relationship identification, and insight generation. Each stage is handled by specialized machine learning components, allowing the system to manage complexity through modular architecture while improving the reliability of causal insights through systematic analysis.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces machine learning models as intermediary components between raw digital content and final causal insights. These intermediary models process and transform content features, filtering out spurious correlations and identifying genuine causal relationships, thereby improving insight reliability while managing system complexity through structured intermediate processing layers.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Measurement precision

If machine learning models are used to extract content components, then the accuracy of content representation is improved, but the processing time increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent representation accuracyVSAvoidprocessing time
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies preliminary action by pre-processing and extracting content components before they are fed into machine learning models. Content features are pre-transformed and organized in a structured manner, allowing the machine learning models to process only the essential information, thereby reducing processing time while maintaining high accuracy in content representation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent employs partial action by selectively processing only the most relevant content features through machine learning models, rather than analyzing all content uniformly. The system identifies and processes key causal factors while skipping redundant analyses, improving representation accuracy for critical elements while reducing overall processing time through selective computation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Data Source

PatentUS12475622B2Digital content analysis
Publication Date: 2025.11.18 ADOBE INC
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AI summary

In implementations of systems for digital content analysis, a computing device implements an analysis system to extract a first content component and a second content component from digital content to be analyzed based on content metrics. The analysis system generates first embeddings using a first machine learning model and second embedding using a second machine learning model. The first embeddings and the second embeddings are combined as concatenated embeddings. The analysis system generates an indication of a content metric for display in a user interface using a third machine learning model based on the concatenated embeddings.