ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,846, issued on June 3, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Knowledge distillation using deep clustering" was invented by Takashi Fukuda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for training a neural network include clustering a full set of training data samples into specialized training clusters. Specialized teacher neural networks are trained using respective specialized training clusters of the specialized training clusters. Soft labels are generated for the full set of training data samples using the specialized teacher neural networks. A student model is trained using the full se...