US Patent Issued on July 14 for "Selective knowledge distillation" (Virginia, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,622, issued on July 14.

"Selective knowledge distillation" was invented by Sravanthi Bondugula (Vienna, Va.), Gang Qian (McLean, Va.), Lei Shi (Mountain View, Calif.) and Allison Beach (Leesburg, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for updating a knowledge distillation training system. One of the methods includes: providing, to a teacher model in a knowledge distillation training system, first data representing an image to cause the teacher model to generate teacher output data that indicates whether the image depicts an object of interest;...