US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Aug. 25 for "Boosting classification and regression tree performance with dimension reduction" (New York, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,113, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Boosting classification and regression tree performance with dimension reduction" was invented by Dzung Tien Phan (Pleasantville, N.Y.), Michael Huang (Los Angeles), Pavankumar Murali (Ardsley, N.Y.) and Lam Minh Nguyen (Ossining, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method can be provided for constructing and training a decision tree for machine learning. A training set can be received. The decision tree can be initialized by constructing a root node and a root solver can be trained with the training set. A processor can grow t...