US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 15 for "Post-hoc loss-calibration for Bayesian neural networks" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,613, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Post-hoc loss-calibration for Bayesian neural networks" was invented by Meet Prakash Vadera (Northampton, Mass.), Uri Kartoun (Cambridge, Mass.), Soumya Ghosh (Boston) and Kenney Ng (Arlington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device and computer-implemented method for post-hoc correction of a decision generated by a machine learning model. The computing device accesses a trained first machine learning (ML) model, a dataset, and a utility function. The computing device trains a second ML model based on performing post-hoc ...