US Patent Issued to Oracle International on Aug. 11 for "Variant inconsistency attack (VIA) as a simple and effective adversarial attack method" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,368, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Variant inconsistency attack (VIA) as a simple and effective adversarial attack method" was invented by Srinivasa Phani Kumar Gadde (Fremont, Calif.) and Xu Zhao (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to techniques for using variant inconsistency attack (VIA) as a simple and effective adversarial attack method to create useful adversarial examples for adversarial training of machine-learning models. In one particular aspect, a method is provided that includes obtaining a set of input examples for att...