ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,898, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Workday Inc. (Pleasanton, Calif.).
"Scaling machine learning using dynamic sharding" was invented by Sameer Kapoor (Milpitas, Calif.) and Sergei Winitzki (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application discloses a method, system, and computer system for dynamically managing or distributing models across a plurality of shards. The method includes determining that a first model is to be added to a first shard of a plurality of shards, the first shard being determined based at least in part on a predetermined cost function, adding the first model to the first shard, and resta...