US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on Sept. 23 for "Accelerated training for neural network models" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,570, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Accelerated training for neural network models" was invented by Christopher Ian Schneider (Hillend, Great Britain), Amy Leigh Rose (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Andrew James Woodard (Buckinghamshire, Great Britain) and Benjemin Thomas Waine (Cheshunt, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to accelerate training of one or more neural networks. In at least one embodiment, training values for individual nodes in a first neural network are estimated using a second neural network or other estimation technique in order to decre...