US Patent Issued to Alibaba Group Holding on Feb. 24 for "Methods and systems for tensor network contraction based on local optimization of contraction tree" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,368, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).

"Methods and systems for tensor network contraction based on local optimization of contraction tree" was invented by Jiachen Huang (Hangzhou, China) and Jianxin Chen (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for tensor network contraction are provided. A method implemented by a computing host comprises obtaining a contraction tree associated with a tensor network, wherein a plurality of vertices and edges of the contraction tree correspond to a set of tensor nodes and indices of the tensor network, respectively...