US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on Sept. 9 for "Detecting category-specific bias using overfitted machine learning models" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,124, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Detecting category-specific bias using overfitted machine learning models" was invented by Tong Niu (Plano, Texas), John Lujano (Dallas), Ruoyu Shao (Allen, Texas), Abhishek Kumar Shrivastava (McKinney, Texas) and Christopher Cowden (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are described herein for a mechanism for detecting model bias using a test model to compare predictions for specific categories of data. Thus, the system may detect category-specific model bias and/or present alternative predictions, for example, via overfitted and a...