Patents by Inventor Etienne Eben Vos

Etienne Eben Vos has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11934441
    Abstract: An ontology topic is selected and a pretrained predictive language model is primed to create a predictive primed model based on one or more ontological rules corresponding to the selected ontology topic. Using the predictive primed model, natural language text is generated based on the ontology topic and guidance of a prediction steering component. The predictive primed model is guided in selecting text that is predicted to be appropriate for the ontology topic and the generated natural language text. The generated natural language text is processed to generate extracted ontology rules and the extracted ontology rules are compared to one or more rules of an ontology rule database that correspond to the ontology topic. A check is performed to determine if a performance of the ontology extractor is acceptable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Francois Pierre Luus, Etienne Eben Vos, Ndivhuwo Makondo, Naweed Aghmad Khan, Ismail Yunus Akhalwaya
  • Patent number: 11880015
    Abstract: Train a machine learning model, using an image-based knowledge graph of tropical cyclone data, for implementing a surface field modeling architecture that produces images of at least surface wind fields and surface rainfall fields from images of at least tropical cyclone tracks and pressure intensities. Generate model images of a modeled surface wind field and a modeled surface rainfall field by providing images of at least a user-generated tropical cyclone track and pressure intensity to the trained machine learning model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Campbell D Watson, Etienne Eben Vos, Komminist Weldemariam
  • Patent number: 11803657
    Abstract: Methods and systems for generating representative data. A generator is configured to create, using a learning model, one or more generated records based on a plurality of training records obtained from a sensitive database. A discriminator is trained to identify the generated records as being generated based on the training records and a privacy adversary is trained to identify a training sample as being more similar to a distribution of the generated records than a distribution of the reference records.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Francois Pierre Luus, Naweed Aghmad Khan, Ndivhuwo Makondo, Etienne Eben Vos, Ismail Yunus Akhalwaya
  • Publication number: 20230280495
    Abstract: A method, computer program, and computer system are provided for identifying bias in weather models. Data corresponding to one or more forecasts associated with a weather model is received. One or more forecast errors in the received data are identified. A forecast bias is determined from among the one or more forecast errors based on determining a presence of consistent errors in a plurality of regions associated with the received data over a period of time. The weather model is updated based on minimizing the determined forecast bias.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Etienne Eben Vos, Sibusisiwe Audrey Makhanya, Zubeida Patel, Thabang Mathonsi
  • Publication number: 20220390647
    Abstract: Train a machine learning model, using an image-based knowledge graph of tropical cyclone data, for implementing a surface field modeling architecture that produces images of at least surface wind fields and surface rainfall fields from images of at least tropical cyclone tracks and pressure intensities. Generate model images of a modeled surface wind field and a modeled surface rainfall field by providing images of at least a user-generated tropical cyclone track and pressure intensity to the trained machine learning model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventors: Campbell D. Watson, Etienne Eben Vos, Komminist Weldemariam
  • Patent number: 11494634
    Abstract: Maximum expressivity can be received representing a ratio between maximum and minimum input weights to a neuron of a neural network implementing a weighted real-valued logic gate. Operator arity can be received associated with the neuron. Logical constraints associated with the weighted real-valued logic gate can be determined in terms of weights associated with inputs to the neuron, a threshold-of-truth, and a neuron threshold for activation. The threshold-of-truth can be determined as a parameter used in an activation function of the neuron, based on solving an activation optimization formulated based on the logical constraints, the activation optimization maximizing a product of expressivity representing a distribution width of input weights to the neuron and gradient quality for the neuron given the operator arity and the maximum expressivity. The neural network of logical neurons can be trained using the activation function at the neuron, the activation function using the determined threshold-of-truth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Francois Pierre Luus, Ryan Nelson Riegel, Ismail Yunus Akhalwaya, Naweed Aghmad Khan, Etienne Eben Vos, Ndivhuwo Makondo
  • Publication number: 20220342115
    Abstract: A method, a computer system, and a computer program product for regionalized climate models is provided. Embodiments of the present invention may include selecting a class of a reduced order model. Embodiments of the present invention may include building a neural network in a reduced order space. Embodiments of the present invention may include recovering full state dynamics. Embodiments of the present invention may include training a model. Embodiments of the present invention may include providing an output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventors: Etienne Eben Vos, Campbell D. Watson, Alberto Costa Nogueira Junior, Bianca Zadrozny, Komminist Weldemariam
  • Publication number: 20210357738
    Abstract: Maximum expressivity can be received representing a ratio between maximum and minimum input weights to a neuron of a neural network implementing a weighted real-valued logic gate. Operator arity can be received associated with the neuron. Logical constraints associated with the weighted real-valued logic gate can be determined in terms of weights associated with inputs to the neuron, a threshold-of-truth, and a neuron threshold for activation. The threshold-of-truth can be determined as a parameter used in an activation function of the neuron, based on solving an activation optimization formulated based on the logical constraints, the activation optimization maximizing a product of expressivity representing a distribution width of input weights to the neuron and gradient quality for the neuron given the operator arity and the maximum expressivity. The neural network of logical neurons can be trained using the activation function at the neuron, the activation function using the determined threshold-of-truth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Inventors: Francois Pierre Luus, Ryan Nelson Riegel, Ismail Yunus Akhalwaya, Naweed Aghmad Khan, Etienne Eben Vos, Ndivhuwo Makondo
  • Publication number: 20210342380
    Abstract: An ontology topic is selected and a pretrained predictive language model is primed to create a predictive primed model based on one or more ontological rules corresponding to the selected ontology topic. Using the predictive primed model, natural language text is generated based on the ontology topic and guidance of a prediction steering component. The predictive primed model is guided in selecting text that is predicted to be appropriate for the ontology topic and the generated natural language text. The generated natural language text is processed to generate extracted ontology rules and the extracted ontology rules are compared to one or more rules of an ontology rule database that correspond to the ontology topic. A check is performed to determine if a performance of the ontology extractor is acceptable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Inventors: Francois Pierre Luus, Etienne Eben Vos, Ndivhuwo Makondo, Naweed Aghmad Khan, Ismail Yunus Akhalwaya
  • Publication number: 20210334403
    Abstract: Methods and systems for generating representative data. A generator is configured to create, using a learning model, one or more generated records based on a plurality of training records obtained from a sensitive database. A discriminator is trained to identify the generated records as being generated based on the training records and a privacy adversary is trained to identify a training sample as being more similar to a distribution of the generated records than a distribution of the reference records.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Inventors: Francois Pierre Luus, Naweed Aghmad Khan, Ndivhuwo Makondo, Etienne Eben Vos, Ismail Yunus Akhalwaya
  • Patent number: 10903863
    Abstract: A first set of signal data is received. Generative machine learning models are trained based on the first set of signal data. The generative machine learning models include at least a first model trained to identify a first signal component and a second model trained to identify a second signal component. An incoming mixed signal data stream is dynamically separated into a clean signal component and a noise signal component by running the generative machine learning models.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Francois Pierre Luus, Etienne Eben Vos, Komminist Weldemariam
  • Publication number: 20200294166
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method provides career options and comprising classifying, by an academic classification module, each of a plurality of academic subjects into a plurality of topics and classifying, by a career classification module, each of a plurality of career options as comprising a plurality of topics. The method comprises determining, by a grading module, for a student, a grade associated with each topic for each subject and calculating, by a prediction module, a degree of match for each career option for the student, the degree of match based on each topic which comprises the career option weighted according to the grade associated therewith.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventors: Etienne Eben Vos, Matokollo Magadla, Mathibele Willy Nchabeleng
  • Publication number: 20200177219
    Abstract: A first set of signal data is received. Generative machine learning models are trained based on the first set of signal data. The generative machine learning models include at least a first model trained to identify a first signal component and a second model trained to identify a second signal component. An incoming mixed signal data stream is dynamically separated into a clean signal component and a noise signal component by running the generative machine learning models.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Francois Pierre Luus, Etienne Eben Vos, Komminist Weldemariam
  • Patent number: 10601454
    Abstract: A first set of signal data is received. Generative machine learning models are trained based on the first set of signal data. The generative machine learning models include at least a first model trained to identify a first signal component and a second model trained to identify a second signal component. An incoming mixed signal data stream is dynamically separated into a clean signal component and a noise signal component by running the generative machine learning models.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Francois Pierre Luus, Etienne Eben Vos, Komminist Weldemariam