Hardware-Accelerated Interaction Assistance Through Model Segmentation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing machine-learned models for real-time applications face challenges due to high parameter counts, requiring significant memory, bandwidth, and processing power, making them inefficient and impractical for real-time inference on user computing devices.

Innovation Solution

Implement a structured preprocessing and postprocessing framework that subdivides tasks into discrete operations, leveraging lightweight models to preprocess and condition inputs for a primary machine-learned model, reducing computational demands and enabling efficient, real-time processing on user devices.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If a machine-learned model with high parameter count is used to perform complex tasks, then the model's capability and accuracy are improved, but the memory requirements, bandwidth consumption, and processing power requirements increase significantly

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemodel accuracyVSAvoidcomputational resource requirements
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent divides the machine-learned model into multiple smaller component models, each responsible for specific sub-tasks. This segmentation allows the system to achieve complex task performance through coordinated simple models, reducing individual model parameter counts and memory requirements while maintaining overall accuracy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces an intermediary layer that coordinates between simple component models and the overall task objective. This intermediary manages information flow and task decomposition, enabling complex computations to be performed through sequential simple operations that require fewer computational resources.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Adaptability or versatility

If a machine-learned model with high parameter count is deployed for real-time inference, then the model can handle complex tasks, but the processing time increases making it impractical for real-time applications

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetask complexity handlingVSAvoidinference speed
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSSpeed

Solution Approach 1:

By segmenting the complex inference task into multiple simpler sub-tasks handled by different component models, the system reduces the computational depth required for each individual inference step. This enables faster processing while maintaining the ability to handle complex overall tasks through coordinated sub-task results.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent performs preliminary processing and feature extraction using simple models before final decision-making. This preliminary action prepares data in advance, reducing the computational burden during real-time inference and enabling faster response times while handling complex tasks.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Productivity

If simple models are used instead of high-parameter models, then computational resources and processing time are reduced, but the ability to perform complex tasks is limited

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveprocessing efficiencyVSAvoidtask capability
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges multiple simple component models into a coordinated system where each model contributes to specific aspects of complex task handling. By combining their capabilities through proper orchestration, the system achieves task versatility equivalent to or exceeding single large models while maintaining the processing efficiency of simple models.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The component models are designed with multi-functionality, where each simple model can handle multiple types of operations or data transformations. This universality allows the collection of simple models to collectively perform diverse complex tasks that would otherwise require specialized high-parameter models.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS20250217209A1Hardware-Accelerated Interaction Assistance System
Publication Date: 2025.07.03 GOOGLE LLC
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AI summary

An interaction assistance system for a user computing device can operate as an intermediate layer in a human-machine interface to receive user action data that describes user actions with a user computing device, interpret the actions in context, and intelligently instruct or command the host system to perform tasks associated with the user action data. An example interaction assistance system can enable faster and more efficient human-machine interfaces by simplifying a number or complexity of inputs to perform a given task.