US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Feb. 17 for "Bayesian variational inference using asymmetric hamiltonian monte carlo" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,010, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Bayesian variational inference using asymmetric hamiltonian monte carlo" was invented by Soumyadip Ghosh (Peekskill, N.Y.), Yingdong Lu (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.) and Tomasz J. Nowicki (Fort Montgomery, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of Bayesian Variational Inference using Asymmetric Hamiltonian Monte Carlo includes gathering a number of data samples for a Hamiltonian Monte Carlo computation and instantiating an auxiliary distribution on the data samples, the auxiliary distribution being asymmetric. A Hamiltonian Monte Carlo com...