US Patent Issued to NTT on Sept. 1 for "Distributed learning method, distributed learning system, server, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,084, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Distributed learning method, distributed learning system, server, and program" was invented by Takumi Fukami (Musashino, Japan), Dai Ikarashi (Musashino, Japan) and Iifan Tyou (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributed learning technology that can accelerate convergence while ensuring security is provided. A learning step of generating, by an i-th client, a model -less thanwi,j in a j-th cycle using learning data Di, an aggregation step of generating, by a server, a global model -less thanwg,j in the j-th cycle from the models -less thanw1,j.., -less thanw...