US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on Nov. 11 for "Configuring a neural network using smoothing splines" (New York, North Carolina, Texas, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,931, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Configuring a neural network using smoothing splines" was invented by Ulrich Alfons Finkler (Mahopac, N.Y.), Michele Merler (New York City, N.Y.), Mayoore Selvarasa Jaiswal (Austin, Texas), Hui Wu (White Plains, N.C.), Rameswar Panda (Medford, Mass.) and Wei Zhang (Elmsford, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment includes identifying an initial plurality of sets of hyperparameter values at which to evaluate an objective function that relates hyperparameter values to performance values of a neural network. The embodiment also exec...