Patents by Inventor Alon Halfon

Alon Halfon 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: 12093645
    Abstract: An example system includes a processor to pre-train a transformer-based language model on a general domain. The processor can inter-train the pre-trained transformer-based language model using partitioning and classification to generate an inter-trained transformer-based pre-trained language model. The processor can then fine-tune the inter-trained transformer-based pre-trained language model on a target task to generate a fine-tuned transformer-based language model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Eyal Shnarch, Ariel Gera, Alon Halfon, Lena Dankin, Leshem Choshen, Ranit Aharonov, Noam Slonim
  • Publication number: 20230078698
    Abstract: An example system includes a processor to pre-train a transformer-based language model on a general domain. The processor can inter-train the pre-trained transformer-based language model using partitioning and classification to generate an inter-trained transformer-based pre-trained language model. The processor can then fine-tune the inter-trained transformer-based pre-trained language model on a target task to generate a fine-tuned transformer-based language model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: Eyal SHNARCH, Ariel GERA, Alon HALFON, Lena DANKIN, Leshem CHOSHEN, Ranit AHARONOV, Noam SLONIM
  • Patent number: 11308419
    Abstract: A method including: generating, from a text corpus, a lexicon of unigrams and bigrams comprising an embedding for each of said unigrams and bigrams; training a machine learning classifier on a training set comprising a subset of said lexicon, wherein each of said unigrams and bigrams in said subset has a sentiment label; applying said machine learning classifier to said lexicon, to (i) predict a sentiment of each of said unigrams and bigrams, and (ii) update said lexicon with the predicted sentiments; and performing statistical analysis on said updated lexicon, to extract one or more sentiment composition lexicons, wherein each of said one or more sentiment composition lexicons is associated with a sentiment composition class.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ranit Aharonov, Roy Bar-Haim, Alon Halfon, Charles Arthur Jochim, Amir Menczel, Noam Slonim, Orith Toledo-Ronen
  • Publication number: 20200374182
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present systems and methods may provide techniques for finding failing components in a distributed storage system. For example a method may comprise measuring problems and health of a plurality of physical and logical components in a distributed storage system, the plurality of physical and logical components forming nodes of the distributed storage system, and generating a graph of the nodes organized in a plurality of hierarchical levels, generating, for each node in the graph, a score summarizing the measured problems and health of the node, determining a highest score at a highest hierarchical level of the graph and determining the associated node as a failing component at a most significant level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Inventors: ELLIOT KARL KOLODNER, Anna Levin, Alon Halfon
  • Patent number: 10831793
    Abstract: A method of estimating a thematic similarity of sentences, comprising receiving a corpus of a plurality of documents describing a plurality of topics where each document comprises a plurality of sentences arranged in a plurality of sections, constructing sentence triplets for at least some of the sentences, each sentence triplet comprising a respective sentence, a respective positive sentence selected randomly from the section comprising the respective sentence and a respective negative sentence selected randomly from another section, training a first neural network with the sentence triplets to identify sentence-sentence vectors mapping each sentence with a shorter distance to its respective positive sentence compared to the distance to its respective negative sentence and outputting the first neural network for estimating thematic similarity between a pair of sentences by computing a distance between the sentence-sentence vectors produced for each sentence of the pair by the first neural network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ranit Aharonov, Liat Ein Dor, Alon Halfon, Yosi Mass, Ilya Shnayderman, Noam Slonim, Elad Venezian
  • Publication number: 20200125673
    Abstract: A method of estimating a thematic similarity of sentences, comprising receiving a corpus of a plurality of documents describing a plurality of topics where each document comprises a plurality of sentences arranged in a plurality of sections, constructing sentence triplets for at least some of the sentences, each sentence triplet comprising a respective sentence, a respective positive sentence selected randomly from the section comprising the respective sentence and a respective negative sentence selected randomly from another section, training a first neural network with the sentence triplets to identify sentence-sentence vectors mapping each sentence with a shorter distance to its respective positive sentence compared to the distance to its respective negative sentence and outputting the first neural network for estimating thematic similarity between a pair of sentences by computing a distance between the sentence-sentence vectors produced for each sentence of the pair by the first neural network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Inventors: RANIT AHARONOV, Liat Ein Dor, Alon Halfon, Yosi Mass, IIya Shnayderman, Noam Slonim, ELAD VENEZIAN
  • Publication number: 20200065716
    Abstract: A method including: generating, from a text corpus, a lexicon of unigrams and bigrams comprising an embedding for each of said unigrams and bigrams; training a machine learning classifier on a training set comprising a subset of said lexicon, wherein each of said unigrams and bigrams in said subset has a sentiment label; applying said machine learning classifier to said lexicon, to (i) predict a sentiment of each of said unigrams and bigrams, and (ii) update said lexicon with the predicted sentiments; and performing statistical analysis on said updated lexicon, to extract one or more sentiment composition lexicons, wherein each of said one or more sentiment composition lexicons is associated with a sentiment composition class.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Inventors: Ranit Aharonov, Roy Bar-Haim, Alon Halfon, Charles Arthur Jochim, Amir Menczel, Noam Slonim, Orith Toledo-Ronen