US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on March 3 for "Crowdsourcing to filter out unpopular potential candidate answers" (California, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,818, issued on March 3, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Crowdsourcing to filter out unpopular potential candidate answers" was invented by Huaiyu Zhu (Fremont, Calif.), Yunyao Li (San Jose, Calif.) and Youxuan Jiang (Ypsilanti, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technology for selecting a correct answer (for example, a correct label for a data set to be used in machine learning algorithms) from among a plurality of candidate answers, where the answers selected relatively infrequently by a plurality of human evaluators are cold from the full plurality of candidate answers to obtain a reduced su...