US 2025/0199761 A1: Product Reduction Tree for Machine Representation

Abstract

A computing means which aggregates initial distributions into an aggregated distribution, the initial distributions being associated with vectors of real values representable in a predefined representation format in which the values representable in this format are between a minimum representable value and a maximum representable value, where, for the aggregation of the initial distributions, the computing means is configured to implement, iteratively: a grouping of distributions to form a plurality of distribution subsets, and product operations, term by term, on the distribution subsets, the products resulting in at least one intermediate distribution, followed by a normalization operation on each intermediate distribution, until the aggregated distribution is obtained, where each grouping of distributions is implemented such that the product operations on the distribution subsets lead to resulting values that are strictly greater than the minimum representable value.