US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Feb. 11 for "Revealing byzantine attackers through smart re-clustering in federated learning" (Brazilian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,225,023, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Revealing byzantine attackers through smart re-clustering in federated learning" was invented by Paulo Abelha Ferreira (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Pablo Nascimento da Silva (Niteroi, Brazil) and Maira Beatriz Hernandez Moran (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Identifying malicious clients in federated learning is disclosed while enhancing privacy. The clients are clustered such that cluster updates in the federated learning are generated. When a suspect cluster is identified, clients in the suspect clusters are labeled as suspect and clie...