US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies'Co., 'Ltd.' on June 30 for "Method and system for training a neural network model using knowledge distillation" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,404, issued on June 30, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and system for training a neural network model using knowledge distillation" was invented by Peyman Passban (Montreal), Yimeng Wu (Montreal) and Mehdi Rezagholizadeh (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An agnostic combinatorial knowledge distillation (CKD) method for transferring trained knowledge of neural model from a complex model (teacher) to a less complex model (student) is described. In addition to training the student to generate a final output that approximates both the teacher's final output and a ground truth of a training...