US Patent Issued to Xerox on July 8 for "System and method for reasoning about the diversity and robustness of an ensemble of classifiers" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,994, issued on July 8, was assigned to Xerox Corp. (Norwalk, Conn.).

"System and method for reasoning about the diversity and robustness of an ensemble of classifiers" was invented by Shantanu Rane (Menlo Park, Calif.), Alejandro E. Brito (Mountain View, Calif.) and Hamed Soroush (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment provides a system which facilitates reasoning about classifiers. During operation, the system determines a plurality of neural networks. The system derives, from a respective neural network, a linear model, wherein the linear model is constructed based on an output of a penultimate layer of the r...