US Patent 11755884 Distributed machine learning with privacy protection

A system having multiple devices that can host different versions of an artificial neural network (ANN). In the system, changes to local versions of the ANN can be combined with a master version of the ANN. In the system, a first device can include memory that can store the master version, a second device can include memory that can store a local version of the ANN, and there can be many devices that store local versions of the ANN. The second device (or any other device of the system hosting a local version) can include a processor that can train the local version, and a transceiver that can transmit changes to the local version generated from the training. The first device can include a transceiver that can receive the changes to a local version, and a processing device that can combine the received changes with the master version.