US Patent Issued to Salesforce on April 7 for "Systems and methods for cross-lingual transfer learning" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,890, issued on April 7, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for cross-lingual transfer learning" was invented by Lifu Tu (San Francisco), Yingbo Zhou (Palo Alto, Calif.), Caiming Xiong (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Jin Qu (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein provide a method of training a language model by tuning a prompt. The method comprises masking tokens of first and second conversational texts which have the same semantic meaning but in different languages (e.g., a translation). The masked texts are input to a language model with a prepended soft prompt. The ...