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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 02, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 15, 2021
Mars, Incorporated, McLean, VA (US);
Mark Justin Parkinson, Newark, NJ (US);
Michael Fitzke, Verden, DE;
Joseph Conrad Stack, Chicago, IL (US);
André Dourson, Haguenau, FR;
Mars, Incorporated, McLean, VA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, the disclosure provides a computer-implemented method comprising: receiving a first labeled training data set comprising a first plurality of images each associated with a set of labels; programmatically training a machine learning neural Teacher model on the first labeled training data set; programmatically applying a machine learning model trained for NLP to an unlabeled data set comprising digital electronic representations of natural language text summaries of a second plurality of images, thereby generating a second labeled training data set comprising the second plurality of images; using the machine learning neural Teacher model, programmatically generating soft pseudo labels; programmatically generating derived labels using the soft pseudo labels; training one or more programmed machine learning neural Student models using the derived labels; receiving a target image; and applying an ensemble of one or more of the Student models to output one or more classifications of the target image.