US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Aug. 4 for "Language model hallucination detection" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,853, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Language model hallucination detection" was invented by Itzik Malkiel (Ramat Gan, Israel), Yakir Yehuda (Tirat Carmel, Israel), Oren Barkan (Tel Aviv, Israel), Yonathan Weill (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Noam Koenigstein (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a language model forward traversal with a few-shot learning forward prompt yields a primary answer from a primary question. Then at least one backward traversal yields at least one candidate question using backward prompt(s) with answer-question pairs derived from...