US Patent Issued to The Toronto-Dominion Bank on Oct. 21 for "Identifying and mitigating disparate group impact in differential-privacy machine-learned models" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,388, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to The Toronto-Dominion Bank (Toronto).

"Identifying and mitigating disparate group impact in differential-privacy machine-learned models" was invented by Jesse Cole Cresswell (Toronto), Atiyeh Ashari Ghomi (Toronto), Yaqiao Luo (Toronto) and Maria Esipova (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A model evaluation system evaluates the extent to which privacy-aware training processes affect the direction of training gradients for groups. A modified differential-privacy ("DP") training process provides per-sample gradient adjustments with parameters that may be adaptively modified for different data...