ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,465, issued on June 16, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Knowledge balancing self-distillation with adaptive mutual information (AMI)" was invented by Ye Yu (Redmond, Wash.), Gaurav Mittal (Redmond, Wash.), Mei Chen (Bellevue, Wash.) and Yu Gong (Burnaby, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed solutions for improved machine learning (ML) employ knowledge balancing self-distillation with adaptive mutual information (AMI). Examples include: for a neural network (NN) having a plurality of modules, determining a task objective for at least a final module of the plurality of modules; for the N...