ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,993, issued on March 24, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Machine learning apparatus, machine learning system, machine learning method, and program" was invented by Hikaru Tsuchida (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machine learning apparatus includes an influence function calculation part which calculates an influence function indicating sensitivity that input data has on parameters of a target model and a target model training part which trains the target model using the influence function as a regularization term."

The patent was filed on May 15, 2020, under Application No. 17/923,714.

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