US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on March 31 for "Sketched and clustered federated learning with automatic tuning" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,807, issued on March 31, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Sketched and clustered federated learning with automatic tuning" was invented by Arpan Mukherjee (West Bengal, India), Georgios Kollias (White Plains, N.Y.), Theodoros Salonidis (Wayne, Pa.) and Shiqiang Wang (White Plains, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, a computer program product, and a computer system for automatic adaptive client selection in federated learning. A server sends parameters of a machine learning model to all of clients, where all of the clients compute respective gradients using the par...