ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,301, issued on July 28, was assigned to Intuit Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Language model training for direct preference optimization and improved language model" was invented by Sagiv Antebi (Petah Tikva, Israel), Matan Vetzler (Petah Tikva, Israel), Gidi Zilbar (Petah Tikva, Israel) and Ofir Ben Shoham (Petah Tikva, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for training a language model including executing, a number of times, a training step. The training step includes executing, on a prompt, a preferred output, and a non-preferred output, a reference language model to generate a reference score and a policy score. A loss f...