US Patent Issued to Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois on Aug. 4 for "Network-centric architecture and algorithms to accelerate distributed training of neural networks" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,877, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Ill.).

"Network-centric architecture and algorithms to accelerate distributed training of neural networks" was invented by Nam Sung Kim (Champaign, Ill.), Youjie Li (Changsha, China) and Alexander Gerhard Schwing (Champaign, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributed network includes a first group of computing devices. Each computing device is to be coupled to two neighbor computing devices of the first group of computing device and is to: (i) aggregate gradient values received from a first neighbor computing device with local gradie...