US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on March 17 for "Training a neural network using an accelerated gradient with shuffling" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,434, issued on March 17, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Training a neural network using an accelerated gradient with shuffling" was invented by Lam Minh Nguyen (Ossining, N.Y.) and Huyen Trang Tran (Ithaca, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An index sequence specifying an index of training data corresponding to a component of a cost function is generated. A first model parameter in the set of model parameters is set to an initial value. Using the index sequence, a neural network model comprising a set of weights is trained. As part of the training, using the index sequence, a learning rate, ...