US Patent Issued to International Business Machines, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute on Jan. 13 for "Byzantine-resilient bilevel federated learning" (New York, Pennsylvania, Georgia, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,527, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.) and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, N.Y.).

"Byzantine-resilient bilevel federated learning" was invented by Theodoros Salonidis (Wayne, Pa.), Yi Zhou (San Jose, Calif.), Momin Abbas (New York), Parikshit Ram (Atlanta), Nathalie Baracaldo Angel (San Jose, Calif.), Horst Cornelius Samulowitz (Armonk, N.Y.) and Tianyi Chen (Rensselaer, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intermediate global lower-level machine learning model is generated by executing federated learning model training using data from an identified first set of lower-le...