Abstract
Cultivating innovative talents is not only the tactic demand of the higher education in the new period but also the important duty of our society. This paper analyzes and discusses the main problems existing in cultivating postgraduates’ innovative ability in the pattern recognition and intelligent system, such as the simplistic curriculum system and training program, lack of professional innovation platform, imperfect innovation environment, and inadequate evaluation mechanism, which make students’ innovative ability has not been substantively improved. In view of these problems mentioned above, some strategies are proposed, which include the innovation of curriculum system and training program, establishment of a more perfect innovation platform, optimization of innovation environment and reform of evaluation mechanism. The research and practice results show that these strategies will improve postgraduates’ innovation consciousness, innovation cogitation and innovation skills.