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Google patents method to make AI image analysis more consistent

This patent describes a technique for improving the reliability of machine-learned models when analyzing images. It involves generating multiple possible answers to an image query and using a consistency metric to select the most stable result.

Why it mattersIt aims to reduce random errors in AI image processing, which could lead to more dependable automated analysis tools.

In the filing’s own words

An example technique for image analysis is provided. An example image analysis method includes obtaining an instructive sequence descriptive of an instructive query, an instructive response, and an instructive trace of intermediate states from the instructive query to the instructive response. The example image analysis method includes inputting, to a machine-learned model, the instructive sequence and an operative image processing query that comprises image data, wherein the machine-learned model is configured to process the operative query with attention over the instructive sequence. The example method can include generating, using the machine-learned model and responsive to the operative query, an operative image processing response that comprises an analysis of the image data.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. A computer-implemented method for increasing consistency of stochastic machine-learned model execution, the method comprising: providing, by a computing system comprising one or more processors, as input to a machine-learned model, a model input comprising an operative query; generating, by the computing system, a plurality of operative responses to the operative query, the plurality of operative responses based on a plurality of sampled outputs sampled, based on a probability distribution of outputs, from an output layer of the machine-learned model; determining, by the computing system, a consistency metric based on the plurality of operative responses; and generating, by the computing system, an operative response based on the consistency metric.

Facts

Company
Google (Google LLC)
Official title
Image analysis by prompting of machine-learned models using chain of thought
Patent number
US12737648B2
Application number
19219678
Filed
May 27, 2025
Granted
Sep 15, 2026
Inventors
24
Claims
20

Classified under

G06N 5/022 Physics & computing
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