US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on May 26 for "Fair selective classification via a variational mutual information upper bound for imposing sufficiency" (California, Massachusetts, Texas, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,623, issued on May 26, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Fair selective classification via a variational mutual information upper bound for imposing sufficiency" was invented by Joshua Ka-Wing Lee (Santa Monica, Calif.), Yuheng Bu (Philadelphia), Deepta Rajan (Irving, Texas), Prasanna Sattigeri (Acton, Mass.), Subhro Das (Cambridge, Mass.), Rameswar Panda (Medford, Mass.) and Gregory Wornell (Wellesley, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more group-specific aggregate losses, one or more group-agnostic aggregate losses, and a joint loss are computed. A regularizer loss is computed based on ...