US Patent Issued to Google on July 7 for "Training neural networks with reinitialization" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,687, issued on July 7, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Training neural networks with reinitialization" was invented by Ibrahim Alabdulmohsin (Cham, Switzerland), Hartmut Maennel (Zurich) and Daniel M. Keysers (Stallikon, Switzerland).

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 neural network using re-initialization. One of the methods includes, at each time step in a sequence of time steps: identifying current values of the weights as of the training time step; selecting one of the layer blocks; generating new values f...