US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Dec. 2 for "Federated learning for training machine learning models" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,223, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Federated learning for training machine learning models" was invented by Lam Minh Nguyen (Ossining, N.Y.), Dzung Tien Phan (Pleasantville, N.Y.) and Jayant R. Kalagnanam (Briarcliff Manor, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach to federated learning of a machine learning model may be provided. The approach may include broadcasting hyperparameters of a machine learning model to one or more client computing devices from a primary device associated with an outer loop or an inner loop. A gradient for the loss function may be calculated a...