US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on June 10 for "Sentence similarity scoring using neural network distillation" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,085, issued on June 10, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Sentence similarity scoring using neural network distillation" was invented by Oren Barkan (Tel-Aviv, Israel), Noam Razin (Herzliya, Israel) and Noam Koenigstein (Herzliya, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure herein describes a system and method for attentive sentence similarity scoring. A distilled sentence embedding (DSE) language model is trained by decoupling a transformer language model using knowledge distillation. The trained DSE language model calculates sentence embeddings for a plurality of candidate sentences for ...