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Two-tower neural network for content-audience relationship prediction

Grant US12579367B2 Kind: B2 Mar 17, 2026

Assignee

Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Inventors

Xueqian Tang, Lijun Peng, Jiarui Wang, Yi Zhang, Yi Wu, Arvind Subramaniam

Abstract

In an example embodiment, a generator model such as a large language model (LLM) is leveraged to generate embeddings for both pieces of content and users. The embeddings map the pieces of content and the users into the same latent n-dimensional space. The embeddings are then fine-tuned using a two-tower deep neural network, with one of the towers representing users and the other tower representing content. The two-tower deep neural network is trained to optimize the embeddings over some shared goal, such as user engagement with content, and uses information such as user interactions with content in that process. A clustering technique, such as K-nearest neighbor (kNN) can then be used to identify a grouping of top user/content pairs based on similarity between users and content, as reflected in the embeddings. For a given piece of content, therefore, the top users from that cluster can then be recommended as an audience for the content.

CPC Classifications

G06F 40/30 G06Q 30/0631

Filing Date

2023-11-10

Application No.

18388726

Claims

18