US Patent Issued to Alibaba Group Holding on Nov. 25 for "Methods and systems for tensor network contraction based on hypergraph decomposition and parameter optimization" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,907, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).

"Methods and systems for tensor network contraction based on hypergraph decomposition and parameter optimization" was invented by Jiachen Huang (Hangzhou, China) and Jianxin Chen (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for tensor network contraction are provided. A method implemented by a computing host includes obtaining a plurality of tensor nodes associated with a tensor network and a plurality of indices respectively associated with the plurality of tensor nodes; generating a graph associated with the ten...