Neural Network Decay Parameters for Sparse Video Stream Training

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Solution Overview

Problem

Training sequential machine learning models for tasks like real-time object detection in video streams is costly due to the need for extensive labeled data, and using sparsely labeled data leads to inaccurate recursive state updates and degraded object detection accuracy.

Innovation Solution

Implementing a three-phase training process for neural networks, including initial training with small labeled sequences, fine-tuning with longer sequences, and hyper-optimizing leakage parameters to ensure accurate inference on continuous data streams using exponential decay to weight recent state information more heavily.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If conventional training approaches are used with extensive labeled data, then training accuracy can be improved, but training costs and time consumption increase significantly

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetraining accuracyVSAvoidtraining time
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The training process is divided into two distinct phases: (1) initial training on sparsely labeled data to establish baseline model parameters, and (2) fine-tuning on continuously streamed data to adapt and improve accuracy over time. This segmentation allows the system to achieve good performance without requiring extensive manual labeling of all training data.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary training using available sparsely labeled data before deployment. This preliminary action establishes a functional model that can then be continuously refined through fine-tuning on incoming data streams, eliminating the need to wait for complete labeled datasets.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Ease of manufacture

If sparsely labeled data is used for training, then training costs are reduced, but object detection accuracy degrades due to inaccurate recursive state updates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetraining costVSAvoidobject detection accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of manufactureVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements continuous fine-tuning where the neural network processes incoming video frames and uses the results to update its internal state and parameters. This feedback mechanism allows the model to correct inaccuracies from sparse labeling by learning from the continuous stream of unlabeled data, thereby maintaining high detection accuracy while using minimal labeled data.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The fine-tuning process operates continuously on incoming video data streams, allowing the model to constantly refine its parameters and maintain accurate object detection. This continuous action compensates for the limitations of sparsely labeled training data by leveraging the temporal continuity and redundancy in video streams.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #20Continuity of useful action

3Productivity

If sequential models are used to exploit similarity of adjacent frames, then processing efficiency is improved, but the requirement for labeled training data increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveprocessing efficiencyVSAvoidlabeled training data
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies sequential processing selectively - using full sequential modeling only when beneficial, while relying more on independent frame processing when labeled data is scarce. The fine-tuning phase processes continuous streams to implicitly learn temporal patterns without requiring explicit labeled sequences, thus achieving partial sequential benefits without the full data requirement.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Data Source

PatentUS20260037790A1Using decay parameters for inferencing with neural networks
Publication Date: 2026.02.05 NVIDIA CORP
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AI summary

Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to identify objects with in an image. In at least one embodiment, objects are identified in an image using one or more neural networks, in which the one or more neural networks are trained using one or more decay parameters.