US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on Aug. 11 for "Communication efficient federated learning" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,500, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Communication efficient federated learning" was invented by Hugh Brendan McMahan (Seattle), Dave Morris Bacon (Seattle), Jakub Konecny (Edinburgh, Great Britain) and Xinnan Yu (Forest Hills, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides efficient communication techniques for transmission of model updates within a machine learning framework, such as, for example, a federated learning framework in which a high-quality centralized model is trained on training data distributed overt a large number of clients each with unreliable network con...