US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on July 28 for "Extracting explanations from attention-based models" (Florida, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,286, issued on July 28, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Extracting explanations from attention-based models" was invented by Thai F. Le (West Palm Beach, Fla.), Supriyo Chakraborty (White Plains, N.Y.) and Mudhakar Srivatsa (White Plains, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Providing an explanation for model outcome can include receiving input data, and passing the input data through an attention-based neural network, where the attention-based neural network learns attention weights associated with contextual embeddings corresponding to tokens of the input data and predicts an outcome correspond...