Google patents search ranking using neural networks on query and document data
This filing describes a method for ranking search results by comparing a user's query with multiple documents. It uses specific AI models to create data representations for both the query and the documents, then compares them to determine how relevant each document is.
In the filing’s own words
A computer-implemented method includes receiving, by a computing system, a query, computing, by the computing system, a similarity matrix based on a first content associated with the query generated by a first transformer and a second content associated with a plurality of documents generated by a second transformer, processing, by the computing system, the similarity matrix via a neural network to generate relevance values respectively corresponding to the plurality of documents, and ranking, by the computing system, the plurality of documents with respect to the query based on the relevance values.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: receiving, by a computing system, a query; computing, by the computing system, a similarity matrix based on a first content associated with the query generated by a first transformer and a second content associated with a plurality of documents generated by a second transformer; processing, by the computing system, the similarity matrix via a neural network to generate relevance values respectively corresponding to the plurality of documents; and ranking, by the computing system, the plurality of documents with respect to the query based on the relevance values.
Facts
- Company
- Google (Google LLC)
- Official title
- Ranking Documents with Respect to a Query Based on Relevance Values
- Publication number
- US20260300306A1
- Application number
- 19479256
- Filed
- Apr 24, 2024
- Published
- Oct 1, 2026
- Inventors
- 9
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G06F 16/24578 Physics & computingMore from Google in AI & software
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