US Patent Issued to EMC IP HOLDING on July 15 for "Fast converging gradient compressor for federated learning" (Brazilian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,315, issued on July 15, was assigned to EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC (Hopkinton, Texas).

"Fast converging gradient compressor for federated learning" was invented by Paulo Abelha Ferreira (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Pablo Nascimento da Silva (Niteroi, Brazil), Tiago Salviano Calmon (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Roberto Nery Stelling Neto (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and Vinicius Michel Gottin (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method for model updating in a federated learning environment, including distributing a current model to client nodes; receiving a first set of gradient sign vectors, wherein each gradient sign vector o...