US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Aug. 12 for "Apparatus and method for sharing and pruning weights for vision and language models" (Pennsylvania, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,873, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for sharing and pruning weights for vision and language models" was invented by Shangqian Gao (Pittsburgh), Burak Uzkent (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Yilin Shen (San Jose, Calif.) and Hongxia Jin (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of performing a multimodal tasks by using a multimodal model that includes a text encoder and a vision encoder, may include obtaining a text feature from the query via the text encoder; obtaining an image feature from the one or more input images via the vision encoder; and outp...