US Patent Issued to Intel on July 21 for "Generating pretrained sparse student model for transfer learning" (Israeli, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,422, issued on July 21, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Generating pretrained sparse student model for transfer learning" was invented by Ofir Zafrir (Zichron Ya'akov, Israel), Guy Boudoukh (Ramat Hasharon, Israel), Ariel Lahrey (Haifa, Israel), Moshe Wasserblat (Maccabim, Israel) and Haihao Shen (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A student model may be trained in two stages by using two teacher models, respectively. The first teacher model has been trained with a pretraining dataset. The second teacher model has been trained with a training dataset that is specific to a task to be performed by the student m...