US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Nov. 3 for "Decoupled optimization of models during pretraining" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,946, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Decoupled optimization of models during pretraining" was invented by Xiaodong Liu (Woodinville, Wash.), Chengyu Dong (San Diego), Lucas Liu (Redmond, Wash.), Hao Cheng (Kinkland, Wash.) and Jianfeng Gao (Woodinville, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed concepts relate to pretraining of machine learning models. One example method involves performing separate optimization of a first machine learning model and a second machine learning model. The first machine learning model can be optimized based at least on first predictions and ...