US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 1 for "Hierarchical multi-armed bandit for lexicon expansion" (Virginia, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,984, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Hierarchical multi-armed bandit for lexicon expansion" was invented by Muntasir Wahed (Blacksburg, Va.) and Daniel Gruhl (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and computer program products for selecting an artificial intelligence (AI) model. Aspects include receiving, by a multi-armed bandit agent, candidate entities from multiple set expansion models and selecting a subset of the candidate entities for a first set expansion task, wherein a first candidate entity of the selected subset of ca...