US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Sept. 22 for "Debugging in federated learning systems" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,632, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Debugging in federated learning systems" was invented by Jayanth Srinivasa (San Jose, Calif.), Myungjin Lee (Bellevue, Wash.) and Ramana Rao V. R. Kompella (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a device makes a determination that performance of a global model generated by aggregating local models trained by a plurality of trainer nodes in a federated learning system has experienced a degradation. The device selects, in response to the determination, a particular trainer node from among the plurality of trainer nodes to ...