US Patent Issued to Salesforce on Aug. 12 for "Training multi-task neural network while minimizing catastrophic forgetting" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,107, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Training multi-task neural network while minimizing catastrophic forgetting" was invented by Romain Cosentino (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Adam Earle (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described herein for a method of determining a similarity of each neuron in a layer of neurons of a neural network model to each other neuron in the layer of neurons. The method further includes determining a redundant set of neurons and a non-redundant set of neurons based on the similarity of each neuron in the layer. The method further includes fine tu...