ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,600, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Linear time algorithms for privacy preserving convex optimization" was invented by Kunal Talwar (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Vitaly Feldman (Mountain View, Calif.) and Tomer Koren (Herzliya, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media for training a machine learning model. The method includes obtaining a training data set comprising a plurality of training examples; determining i) a stochastic gradient descent step size schedule, ii) a stochastic gradient descent noise schedule,...