US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Oct. 20 for "Training and using machine learning models to provide counterfactual explanations of predictions" (Georgia, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,269, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Training and using machine learning models to provide counterfactual explanations of predictions" was invented by Bum Chul Kwon (Cambridge, Mass.) and Grace Guo (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are techniques for training and using machine learning models to provide counterfactual explanations of predictions. An Artificial Intelligence (AI) predictive model is trained. The AI predictive model is used to generate a prediction label for each item of a plurality of input items. A target item with an initial prediction label. Fo...