ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,746, issued on March 31, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Language model tuning in conversational artificial intelligence systems and applications" was invented by Yi Dong (Lexington, Mass.), Xianchao Wu (Tokyo) and Yi Fen Zenodia Charpy (Alingsas, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems and techniques that may generate prompts for language models. The techniques include obtaining a first dataset and a second dataset and training a hierarchical virtual token generator (VTG) model to generate a large language model (LLM) input prompt. Training the hierarchical VTG includes training, based on th...