US Patent Issued to NEC on March 18 for "Machine learning knowledge management based on lifelong boosting in presence of less data" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,421, issued on March 18, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Machine learning knowledge management based on lifelong boosting in presence of less data" was invented by Anil Goyal (Dossenheim, Germany), Ammar Shaker (Heidelberg, Germany) and Francesco Alesiani (Heidelberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for lifelong machine learning using boosting includes receiving a new task and a learning sample for the new task. A distribution of weights is learned over the learning sample using previously learned classifiers from old tasks. A set of task-specific classifiers are learned for the new task using a boosting algorith...