US Patent Issued to Salesforce on March 3 for "Systems and methods for interpolative centroid contrastive learning" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,823, issued on March 3, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for interpolative centroid contrastive learning" was invented by Anthony Meng Huat Tiong (Singapore), Junnan Li (Singapore) and Chu Hong Hoi (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An interpolative centroid contrastive learning (ICCL) framework is disclosed for learning a more discriminative representation for tail classes. Specifically, data samples, such as natural images, are projected into a low-dimensional embedding space, and class centroids for respective classes are created as average embeddings of samples that belong to a respecti...