IBM Patent Applications

SYNCHRONIZING PHYSICAL AND VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS USING QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT

Granted: January 25, 2024
Application Number: 20240029375
An embodiment includes accessing captured video of a first physical object in a physical environment. The embodiment also includes detecting a feature of the first physical object in a first frame of the video. The embodiment encodes a first qubit with a first quantum state based on a first value of the feature of the first physical object, and then entangles the first qubit with a second qubit forming an entangled qubit pair. The embodiment detects a second quantum state of the second…

TRAINING A NEURAL NETWORK USING AN ACCELERATED GRADIENT WITH SHUFFLING

Granted: January 18, 2024
Application Number: 20240020528
An index sequence specifying an index of training data corresponding to a component of a cost function is generated. A first model parameter in the set of model parameters is set to an initial value. Using the index sequence, a neural network model comprising a set of weights is trained. As part of the training, using the index sequence, a learning rate, and a set of gradients, a subset of the set of model parameters is updated. As part of the training, a momentum term is set. As part of…

PREVENTING JITTER IN HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING SYSTEMS

Granted: January 18, 2024
Application Number: 20240020172
A first device may obtain metrics information associated with a second device, the metrics information indicating a measurement of a performance of a component of the second device, and the metrics information being obtained via a first network. The first device may determine a load of a processing unit of the second device based on the metrics information. The first device may determine, based on the load of the processing unit, whether the second device is capable of executing a…

TRAINING A NEURAL NETWORK USING AN ACCELERATED GRADIENT WITH SHUFFLING

Granted: January 18, 2024
Application Number: 20240020528
An index sequence specifying an index of training data corresponding to a component of a cost function is generated. A first model parameter in the set of model parameters is set to an initial value. Using the index sequence, a neural network model comprising a set of weights is trained. As part of the training, using the index sequence, a learning rate, and a set of gradients, a subset of the set of model parameters is updated. As part of the training, a momentum term is set. As part of…

PREVENTING JITTER IN HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING SYSTEMS

Granted: January 18, 2024
Application Number: 20240020172
A first device may obtain metrics information associated with a second device, the metrics information indicating a measurement of a performance of a component of the second device, and the metrics information being obtained via a first network. The first device may determine a load of a processing unit of the second device based on the metrics information. The first device may determine, based on the load of the processing unit, whether the second device is capable of executing a…

PROVIDING A SEMANTIC ENCODING AND LANGUAGE NEURAL NETWORK

Granted: January 11, 2024
Application Number: 20240013003
Embodiments are provided for unsupervised learning of domain specific knowledge graph from textual data and language generation from knowledge graph via reinforcement learning in a computing system by a processor. Unstructured data is automatically parsed into one or more knowledge graphs based on the unstructured data and a list of candidate relations using a first machine learning model. Text data is generated from the one or more knowledge graphs using a second machine learning model.

PROVIDING A SEMANTIC ENCODING AND LANGUAGE NEURAL NETWORK

Granted: January 11, 2024
Application Number: 20240013003
Embodiments are provided for unsupervised learning of domain specific knowledge graph from textual data and language generation from knowledge graph via reinforcement learning in a computing system by a processor. Unstructured data is automatically parsed into one or more knowledge graphs based on the unstructured data and a list of candidate relations using a first machine learning model. Text data is generated from the one or more knowledge graphs using a second machine learning model.

QUANTUM ADVANTAGE USING QUANTUM CIRCUIT FOR GRADIENT ESTIMATION

Granted: December 28, 2023
Application Number: 20230419153
Described herein are quantum gradient algorithms that result in a quantum advantage over conventional methods. In an example, a quantum circuit is configured to implement a quantum gradient algorithm when executed on qubits of a quantum computing system. The quantum gradient algorithm includes a phase oracle OSƒm defined by a finite difference approximation with an order greater than zero, and a complexity of the quantum gradient algorithm scales as (?{square root over (k)}/?). The…

VALIDATING AND ESTIMATING RUNTIME FOR QUANTUM ALGORITHMS

Granted: December 21, 2023
Application Number: 20230409938
A method for validation and runtime estimation of a quantum algorithm includes receiving a quantum algorithm and simulating the quantum algorithm, the quantum algorithm forming a set of quantum gates. The method further includes analyzing a first set of parameters of the set of quantum gates and analyzing a second set of parameters of a set of qubits performing the set of quantum gates. The method further includes transforming, in response to determining at least one of the first set of…

SYNCHRONIZING PHYSICAL AND VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS USING QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT

Granted: December 21, 2023
Application Number: 20230410439
An embodiment includes accessing captured video of a first physical object in a physical environment. The embodiment also includes detecting a feature of the first physical object in a first frame of the video. The embodiment encodes a first qubit with a first quantum state based on a first value of the feature of the first physical object, and then entangles the first qubit with a second qubit forming an entangled qubit pair. The embodiment detects a second quantum state of the second…

Mop System with Rotating Mop Head

Granted: December 21, 2023
Application Number: 20230404354
A spin mop and bucket system to assist in dewatering a mop is disclosed. The spin mop may have a handle assembly slidably connected with a spiral member, and a mop head that is attached to the spiral member. When the handle assembly moves along the spiral member, the spiral member rotates causing the mop head to rotate. The mop head may articulate relative to the handle assembly and may be pivotally connected to the spiral member and also pivotally connected to a swivel member located…

LEASING DIGITAL ASSETS

Granted: December 14, 2023
Application Number: 20230401593
A price for use of a digital asset in a set of digital assets is determined. The set of digital assets stored in a digital asset repository. A time slot during which the digital asset is available for use is determined. The digital asset is leased out at the price and during the time slot, the leasing allowing use of the digital asset during the time slot in return for payment of the price. the leased digital asset is integrated with a set of base characteristics of a virtualized user.…

REASONING WITH REAL-VALUED FIRST ORDER LOGIC AND PROBABILITY INTERVALS

Granted: December 14, 2023
Application Number: 20230401437
Embodiments are provided for providing enhanced routing in a computing system by a processor. All first-order logic formulas may be converted into real-valued logic formulas. A probabilistic inference is executed using the real-valued logic formulas and one or more probability intervals associated with an atomic formulae in a knowledge base to provide an interval conditional probability indicating that a first predicate condition is true based one or more alternative predicates being…

AUTOMATED FACT CHECKING USING ITERATIVE KNOWLEDGE BASE QUERYING

Granted: December 14, 2023
Application Number: 20230401213
An embodiment includes decomposing a natural language assertion into a natural language question and answer pair that includes an initial question and an initial answer. The embodiment translates the initial question into a structured knowledge graph query and then performs an iterative process comprising iterative querying of a knowledge graph and evaluating of corresponding query responses resulting in respective confidence scores. A first iteration of the iterative process comprises…

TIMING-AWARE AND SIMULTANEOUS OPTIMIZATION OF LATCH CLUSTERING AND PLACEMENT IN AN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT

Granted: December 7, 2023
Application Number: 20230394211
Embodiments are provided for providing enhanced fabrication and design of an integrated circuit in a computing system by a processor. One or more latches may be clustered by augmenting an integer linear program (“ILP”) operation with a facility-location allocation (FLA) operation, wherein the clustering of the one or more latches is timing-aware. The one or more latches may be placed and assigned in the integrated chip based on clustering one or more latches.

AUTOMATED HAZARD RECOGNITION USING MULTIPARAMETER ANALYSIS OF AERIAL IMAGERY

Granted: November 30, 2023
Application Number: 20230386199
An embodiment includes identifying a tree type of vegetation depicted in an image. The embodiment segments that portion of the image using edge-detection processing resulting in a contour line that defines a tree perimeter. The embodiment detects that the tree is within a buffer distance from a power line. The embodiment determines the tree's species by comparing the contour line to candidate contour lines of different tree species and calculates a diameter of the tree's crown using the…

ENHANCED ALIGNMENT FOR GLOBAL PLACEMENT IN A CIRCUIT

Granted: November 30, 2023
Application Number: 20230385503
Embodiments are provided for enhanced initial global placement in a circuit design in a computing system by a processor. A wire length minimization may be determined based on maximum population density constraints as a single player game theory for global placement of an integrated circuit.

LOGIC LOCKING OPERATIONS

Granted: November 30, 2023
Application Number: 20230385496
Embodiments are provided for providing enhanced protection of an integrated circuit in a computing system by a processor. A logic locking FSM component or a logic locking with RTL gating may be applied to a current design logic to enable and protect operations of an integrated circuit, where the current design logic remains unchanged. The operation of the integrated circuit may be activated based upon providing to the integrated circuit a correct key from the logic locking FSM component…

PROGRAMMABLE MULTICAST PROTOCOL FOR RING-TOPOLOGY BASED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SYSTEMS

Granted: November 16, 2023
Application Number: 20230370304
Embodiments for providing enhanced multicast data transfer for ring topology based artificial intelligence systems are disclosed. Multicast data is sent to a plurality of disjointed cores in a multicast group according to a first multicast mode, a second multicast mode, or a third multicast mode, where the first multicast mode sends a first half the multicast data on first multicast ring and a second half on a second multicast ring, the second multicast mode sends the multicast data on…

4-PYRROLIDIN-1-Yl-5-P-TOLYL-THIENO[2,3-D] PYRIMIDINE FOR USE IN THE TREATMENT OF AGING-ASSOCIATED AND PREMATURE AGING DISEASES THROUGH RESTORED CHROMOSOMAL STABILITY AND INHIBITION OF CELLULAR SENESCENCE

Granted: November 2, 2023
Application Number: 20230346785
The present invention refers to the use of a small molecule to inhibit cellular hallmarks of aging, with therapeutic impact in aging-associated diseases and progeroid syndromes. The present invention discloses that defective mitotic mechanisms contribute to age-associated chromosomal instability (CIN) and to cell senescence. In particular, the present invention discloses that dysfunction of microtubule dynamics arising with age due to decreased MT-depolymerizing kinesin-13 activity,…