ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,381, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Alternative soft label generation" was invented by Toru Nagano (Taito-ku, Japan), Takashi Fukuda (Tokyo) and Gakuto Kurata (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach to identifying alternate soft labels for training a student model may be provided. A teaching model may generate a soft label for a labeled training data. The training data can be an acoustic file for speech or a spoken natural language. A pool of soft labels previously generated by teacher models can be searched at the label level to identify soft labels that are simi...