ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,965, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Reliable gradient-free and likelihood-free prompt tuning" was invented by Maohao Shen (Cambridge, Mass.), Soumya Ghosh (Boston), Prasanna Sattigeri (Acton, Mass.), Subhro Das (Cambridge, Mass.), Yuheng Bu (Philadelphia) and Gregory Wornell (Wellesley, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Prompt embedding samples are drawn from a prior distribution and are passed into a pretrained model to receive a corresponding token label prediction for a batch of text data. Prompt embedding sam...