ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,777, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to NAVER Corp. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).

"Sampling from discrete energy-based models with quality/efficiency trade-off" was invented by Bryan Eikema (Amsterdam), German Kruszewski (Saint Mande, France), Hady Elsahar (Grenoble, France), Stephane Clinchant (Grenoble, France) and Marc Dymetman (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sampling system includes: an energy-based model (EBM) configured to generate non-negative scores of an input having discrete classifications, respectively; and a sampling module configured to: generate a sample from a probability distribution of the EBM using...