US Patent Issued to NEC on Dec. 2 for "Information-aware graph contrastive learning" (New Jersey, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,238, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information-aware graph contrastive learning" was invented by Wei Cheng (Princeton Junction, N.J.), Dongkuan Xu (State College, Pa.) and Haifeng Chen (West Windsor, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for performing contrastive learning for graph tasks and datasets by employing an information-aware graph contrastive learning framework is presented. The method includes obtaining two semantically similar views of a graph coupled with a label for training by employing a view augmentation component, feeding the two semantically similar views into respective encoder networ...