US Patent Issued to Google on Oct. 14 for "Partially local federated learning" (New York, Washington, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,890, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Partially local federated learning" was invented by Karan Singhal (Roslyn, N.Y.), Hakim Sidahmed Jr. (Redmond, Wash.), Zachary A. Garrett (Seattle), Shanshan Wu (Seattle), John Keith Rush (Seattle) and Sushant Prakash (Marblehead, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for training a machine learning model having a set of local model parameters and a set of global model parameters under a partially local federated learning framework. One of the methods include maint...