US Patent Issued to Google on Jan. 27 for "Training machine learning models using quantile and median ranking distillation" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,436, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Training machine learning models using quantile and median ranking distillation" was invented by Gil Shamir (Sewickley, Pa.) and Zhuoshu Li (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, that obtain a first machine learning model that is configured to output a score. The training examples can each include feature values that represent features of an item, and an outcome label for the item. From the training examples, training pairs of training examples are determin...