US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on May 12 for "Semi-autoregressive text editing" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,050, issued on May 12, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Semi-autoregressive text editing" was invented by Jonathan Stephen Mallinson (Zurich), Aliaksei Severyn (Lachen, Switzerland), Eric Emil Malmi (Zurich) and Jakub Dominik Adamek (Zurich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are improved machine learning-based text editing models. Specifically, example implementations include a flexible semi-auto-regressive text-editing approach for generation, designed to derive the maximum benefit from non-auto-regressive text-editing and autoregressive decoding. In contrast to conventional sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) mod...