US Patent Issued to Salesforce on July 8 for "Systems and methods for masked self-training of unsupervised image classification" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,013, issued on July 8, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for masked self-training of unsupervised image classification" was invented by Junnan Li (Singapore) and Chu Hong Hoi (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein provide a masked self-training (MaST) which is an unsupervised learning approach leveraging two complimentary sources of supervision: pseudo-labels and raw image pixels. Specifically, MaST jointly optimizes three objectives to finetune a pre-trained classification model on unlabeled images: (1) self-training objective to learn global task-specific class pred...