US Patent Issued to Cognizant Technology Solutions US on March 3 for "System and method for generating parametric activation functions" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,942, issued on March 3, was assigned to Cognizant Technology Solutions US Corp. (College Station, Texas).

"System and method for generating parametric activation functions" was invented by Garrett Bingham (Oakland, Calif.) and Risto Miikkulainen (Stanford, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The embodiments describe a technique for customizing activation functions automatically, resulting in reliable improvements in performance of deep learning networks. Evolutionary search is used to discover the general form of the function, and gradient descent to optimize its parameters for different parts of the network and over the learning p...