Title
Patent Citation Dynamics Modeling via Multi-Attention Recurrent Networks.
Abstract
Modeling and forecasting forward citations to a patent is a central task for the discovery of emerging technologies and for measuring the pulse of inventive progress. Conventional methods for forecasting these forward citations cast the problem as analysis of temporal point processes which rely on the conditional intensity of previously received citations. Recent approaches model the conditional intensity as a chain of recurrent neural networks to capture memory dependency in hopes of reducing the restrictions of the parametric form of the intensity function. For the problem of patent citations, we observe that forecasting a patent's chain of citations benefits from not only the patent's history itself but also from the historical citations of assignees and inventors associated with that patent. In this paper, we propose a sequence-to-sequence model which employs an attention-of-attention mechanism to capture the dependencies of these multiple time sequences. Furthermore, the proposed model is able to forecast both the timestamp and the category of a patent's next citation. Extensive experiments on a large patent citation dataset collected from USPTO demonstrate that the proposed model outperforms state-of-the-art models at forward citation forecasting.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.24963/ijcai.2019/364
IJCAI
Field
DocType
Volume
Data mining,Computer science,Patent citation,Citation,Point process,Recurrent neural network,Emerging technologies,Timestamp
Journal
abs/1905.10022
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.37
0
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Taoran Ji1173.39
Zhiqian Chen2138.04
Nathan Self31019.65
Kaiqun Fu4215.24
Chang-Tien Lu51097115.77
Naren Ramakrishnan61913176.25