US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on Feb. 3 for "Mixup data augmentation for knowledge distillation framework" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,691, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Mixup data augmentation for knowledge distillation framework" was invented by Takashi Fukuda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of training a student neural network is provided. The method includes feeding a data set including a plurality of input vectors into a teacher neural network to generate a plurality of output values, and converting two of the plurality of output values from the teacher neural network for two corresponding input vectors into two corresponding soft labels. The method further includes combining the two corre...