US Patent Issued to Salesforce on Jan. 13 for "Systems and methods for question-driven pretraining for controllable summarization" (New York, California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,626, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for question-driven pretraining for controllable summarization" was invented by Artidoro Pagnoni (Seattle), Alexander Fabbri (New York) and Wojciech Kryscinski (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein provide a task-targeted training paradigm which involves reformulating the pretraining objective to match the downstream task, e.g., query-focused summarization with or without guidance, without additional supervision. Specifically, query-focused summarization is foremost a task in which information is sele...