US Patent Issued to Oracle International on Jan. 28 for "Compressing neural networks for natural language understanding" (Australian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,973, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Compressing neural networks for natural language understanding" was invented by Mark Edward Johnson (Sydney).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A model for a natural language understanding task is generated based on labeled data generated by a labeling model. The model for the natural language understanding task is smaller than the labeling model (i.e., with lower computational and memory requirements than the combined model), but with substantially the same performance as the labeling model. In some cases, the labeling model may be generated bas...