US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on Oct. 28 for "Distilling from ensembles to improve reproducibility of neural networks" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,047, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Distilling from ensembles to improve reproducibility of neural networks" was invented by Gil Shamir (Sewickley, Pa.) and Lorenzo Coviello (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods can improve the reproducibility of neural networks by distilling from ensembles. In particular, aspects of the present disclosure are directed to a training scheme that utilizes a combination of an ensemble of neural networks and a single, "wide" neural network that is more powerful (e.g., exhibits a greater accuracy) than the ensemble. Specifically, the output...