ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,633, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to RAKUTEN MOBILE INC. (Tokyo).
"Collaborative training with parallel operations" was invented by Zihan Zhang (St Andrews, Great Britain), Blesson Varghese (St Andrews, Great Britain), Philip Rodgers (London), Ivor Spence (Belfast, Great Britain) and Peter Kilpatrick (Belfast, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Neural networks are collaboratively trained with parallel operations by performing operations in a plurality of consecutive time periods including a first plurality of consecutive time periods during which the server receives a set of activations, applies the server partition to...