US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on March 4 for "Feature importance based model optimization" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,367, issued on March 4, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Feature importance based model optimization" was invented by Jing Xu (Xi'an, China), Xue Ying Zhang (Xi'an, China), Si Er Han (Xi'an, China), Jing James Xu (Xi'an, China), Xiao Ming Ma (Xi'an, China), Jun Wang (Xi'an, China) and Wen Pei Yu (Xi'an, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a computer-implemented method, a system and a computer program product for model exploration. Model feature importance of each model of a plurality of models can be obtained, the plurality of models can be grouped into a plurality of model cluster...