US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on April 7 for "Fine-tuning joint text-image encoders using reprogramming" (Wisconsin, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,236, issued on April 7, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Fine-tuning joint text-image encoders using reprogramming" was invented by Andrew Geng (Madison, Wis.) and Pin-Yu Chen (White Plains, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques to fine-tune a joint text-image encoder via model reprogramming. The joint text-image encoder includes an image encoder and a text encoder, which are trained. An image and a caption describing the image are received. A reprogrammed image is generated based on the received image and using a first function. A reprogrammed caption is generated based on the received ...