US Patent Issued to NAVER on July 7 for "Composite code sparse autoencoders for approximate neighbor search" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,521, issued on July 7, was assigned to NAVER Corp. (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

"Composite code sparse autoencoders for approximate neighbor search" was invented by Carlos Lassance (Grenoble, France), Stephane Clinchant (Meylan, France) and Thibault Formal (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Information retrieval methods employ a neural network encoder configured to receive a dense representation and generate a composite code comprising C clusters of dimension L from the dense representation. An activation function is configured to generate a sparse composite code from the composite code. The sparse composite code comprise...