US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on June 23 for "Cross-lingual knowledge transfer learning" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,420, issued on June 23, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Cross-lingual knowledge transfer learning" was invented by Takashi Fukuda (Tokyo) and Samuel Thomas (White Plains, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for training a neural network include training language-specific teacher models using different respective source language datasets. A student model is trained, using the different respective source language datasets and soft labels generated by the language-specific teacher models, including shuffling the source language datasets and shuffling weights of language-dependen...