ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,581, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Contrastive sequence-to-sequence data selector" was invented by Wei Wang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Bowen Liang (Mountain View, Calif.), Macduff Hughes (Los Gatos, Calif.), Taro Watanabe (Mountain View, Calif.), Tetsuji Nakagawa (Tokyo) and Alexander Rudnick (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes generating a base model by training with a first dataset of data pairs and generating an adapted model by training the base model on a second dataset of data pairs. The method also includes determining a contrastive score for each data pai...