US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on Nov. 3 for "Optimized active learning using integer programming" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,937, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Optimized active learning using integer programming" was invented by Rafid Reza Mahmood (Mississauga, Canada), Sanja Fidler (Toronto) and Marc Law (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, a representative subset of data points are queried or selected using integer programming to minimize the Wasserstein distance between the selected data points and the data set from which they were selected. A Generalized Benders Decomposition (GBD) may be used to decompose and iteratively solve the minimization problem, providing a globally optimal solutio...