US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on June 10 for "Continual learning using cross connections" (California, New Jersey, Delaware Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,184, issued on June 10, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Continual learning using cross connections" was invented by Yu Tian (Piscataway, N.J.), Xiaolong Wang (Campbell, Calif.), Qinghan Xue (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Steven Nicholas Eliuk (San Jose, Calif.) and Xin Guo (Newark, Del.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, a computer system, and a computer program product for using distinct paths with cross connections for distinct tasks to prevent catastrophic forgetting in class-incremental scenarios. Embodiments of the present invention may include receiving one or more tasks sequentially. Embodime...