US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Sept. 23 for "Lightweight attacker identification method for federated learning with secure byzantine-robust aggregation via clustering" (Brazilian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,419, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Lightweight attacker identification method for federated learning with secure byzantine-robust aggregation via clustering" 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: "One method includes receiving, at a central node, a respective gradient from each node of a cluster, and each of the gradients comprises a respective update to a global machine learning model maintained at the central node, aggregating, by ...