US Patent Issued to Waymo on Aug. 11 for "Training distilled machine learning models using a pre-trained feature extractor" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,490, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Training distilled machine learning models using a pre-trained feature extractor" was invented by Ming Ji (Palo Alto, Calif.), Edward Stephen Walker Jr. (San Francisco), Yang Song (San Jose, Calif.), Zijian Guo (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Congcong Li (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for training a student machine learning model using a teacher machine learning model that has a pre-trained feature extractor. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining...