US Patent Issued to Lemon on June 30 for "Unlearning of recommendation models" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,435, issued on June 30, was assigned to Lemon Inc. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).

"Unlearning of recommendation models" was invented by Jiankai Sun (Los Angeles), Xinlei Xu (Los Angeles), Xin Yang (Los Angeles), Yuanshun Yao (Los Angeles) and Chong Wang (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes techniques of performing machine unlearning in a recommendation model. An unlearning process of the recommendation model may be initiated in response to receiving a request for deleting a fraction of user data from any particular user. The recommendation model may be pre-trained to recommend content to users...