US Patent Issued to Salesforce on May 20 for "Systems and methods for contextualized and quantized soft prompts for natural language understanding" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,204, issued on May 20, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for contextualized and quantized soft prompts for natural language understanding" was invented by Rishabh Bhardwaj (Singapore), Amrita Saha (Singapore) and Chu Hong Hoi (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein provide a soft prompt tuning technique referred to as the Vector quantized Input-contextualized Prompt (VIP). The VIP techniques has two integral properties i) instead of learning a fixed set of prompt tokens irrespective of the input, it generates a contextualized version of the soft prompts, conditional o...