US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Oct. 14 for "Parameter data sharing for multi-learner training of machine learning applications" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,893, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Parameter data sharing for multi-learner training of machine learning applications" was invented by Minwei Feng (Hangzhou, China), Yufei Ren (Somers, N.Y.), Yandong Wang (Chicago), Li Zhang (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.) and Wei Zhang (Elmsford, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machine receives a first set of global parameters from a global parameter server. Multiple learner processors in the machine execute an algorithm that models an entity type using the first set of global parameters and a mini-batch of data known to describe the entity ...