US Patent Issued to The Toronto-Dominion Bank on May 26 for "Distributed model training with collaboration weights for private data sets" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,628, issued on May 26, was assigned to The Toronto-Dominion Bank (Toronto).

"Distributed model training with collaboration weights for private data sets" was invented by Jesse Cole Cresswell (Toronto), Brendan Leigh Ross (Toronto), Ka Ho Yenson Lau (Toronto), Junfeng Wen (Waterloo, Canada) and Yi Sui (Newmarket, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Model training systems collaborate on model training without revealing respective private data sets. Each private data set learns a set of client weights for a set of computer models that are also learned during training. Inference for a particular private data set is determined as a mixtu...