US Patent Issued to HULU on Aug. 12 for "Masked model training of a prediction network" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,079, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to HULU LLC (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Masked model training of a prediction network" was invented by Pengyu Zhao (Beijing), Chunxu Xu (Beijing), Xianghui Mao (Beijing) and Xiaohui Xie (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a method receives a first sequence of inputs for processing via a sub-model of a plurality of sub-model. The plurality of sub-models are part of a main model. An input in the sequence of inputs is masked with a masked value to generate a second sequence of inputs. The method processes the second sequence of inputs using the sub-model to generate a sequence o...