US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Sept. 9 for "Interpreting summarization model decisions based on attention" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,040, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Interpreting summarization model decisions based on attention" was invented by Roy Eisenstadt (Tel Aviv, Israel), Abed El Kader Asi (Sammamish, Wash.), Royi Ronen (Tel Aviv, Israel), Dean Geckt (Haifa, Israel) and Alexander Tsvetkov (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure herein describes interpreting attention-based decisions of summarization outputs generated by a deep learning model. A decision interpretation model obtains attention values defining connections between input tokens associated with a source text and...