US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies'Co., 'Ltd.' on May 5 for "Methods, devices and media for re-weighting to improve knowledge distillation" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,880, issued on May 5, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Methods, devices and media for re-weighting to improve knowledge distillation" was invented by Peng Lu (Montreal), Ahmad Rashid (Montreal), Mehdi Rezagholizadeh (Montreal) and Abbas Ghaddar (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, devices and processor-readable media for re-weighting to improve knowledge distillation are described. A reweighting module may be used to determine relative weights to assign to a ground truth label and dark knowledge distilled from the teacher (i.e. the teacher output logits used as soft labels). A meta-reweight...