US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on May 5 for "Stochastic gradient boosting for deep neural networks" (Virginia, Maryland, District Of Columbia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,874, issued on May 5, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Stochastic gradient boosting for deep neural networks" was invented by Oluwatobi Olabiyi (Arlington, Va.), Erik T. Mueller (Chevy Chase, Md.) and Christopher Larson (Washington).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects described herein may allow for the application of stochastic gradient boosting techniques to the training of deep neural networks by disallowing gradient back propagation from examples that are correctly classified by the neural network model while still keeping correctly classified examples in the gradient averaging. Removing the gradient contri...