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most citedProbabilistic Photonic Computing with Chaotic Light

4 citations · 5 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

cs.LG2026

Beyond Noise: Understanding and Overcoming Temperature Effects in Analog DNN Inference

Niklas Summ, Xiao Wang, Hendrik Borras +2

The energy efficiency of analog computing makes it one of the most promising candidates for deploying resource-intensive machine learning workloads on constrained platforms such as…

cs.LG2026

Constrained Co-Design for Photonic Bayesian Neural Networks

Hendrik Borras, Xiao Wang, Bernhard Klein +4

Classical neural networks frequently produce overconfident predictions on ambiguous or out-of-distribution (OOD) data, a liability that grows with each AI system deployed in safety…

physics.app-ph2026

Probabilistic Photonic Computing

Frank Brückerhoff-Plückelmann, Anna P. Ovvyan, Akhil Varri +8

Probabilistic computing excels in approximating combinatorial problems and modelling uncertainty. However, using conventional deterministic hardware for probabilistic models is cha…

cs.LG2025

Uncertainty-Preserving QBNNs: Multi-Level Quantization of SVI-Based Bayesian Neural Networks for Image Classification

Hendrik Borras, Yong Wu, Bernhard Klein +1

Bayesian Neural Networks (BNNs) provide principled uncertainty quantification but suffer from substantial computational and memory overhead compared to deterministic networks. Whil…

cs.LG2025

Uncertainty Reasoning with Photonic Bayesian Machines

F. Brückerhoff-Plückelmann, H. Borras, S. U. Hulyal +12

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems increasingly influence safety-critical aspects of society, from medical diagnosis to autonomous mobility, making uncertainty awareness a centra…

cs.LG2025

Accelerated Execution of Bayesian Neural Networks using a Single Probabilistic Forward Pass and Code Generation

Bernhard Klein, Falk Selker, Hendrik Borras +3

Machine learning models perform well across domains such as diagnostics, weather forecasting, NLP, and autonomous driving, but their limited uncertainty handling restricts use in s…

cs.LG2025

Resource-Efficient and Robust Inference of Deep and Bayesian Neural Networks on Embedded and Analog Computing Platforms

Bernhard Klein

While modern machine learning has transformed numerous application domains, its growing computational demands increasingly constrain scalability and efficiency, particularly on emb…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

Variance-Aware Noisy Training: Hardening DNNs against Unstable Analog Computations

Xiao Wang, Hendrik Borras, Bernhard Klein +1

The disparity between the computational demands of deep learning and the capabilities of compute hardware is expanding drastically. Although deep learning achieves remarkable perfo…

cs.LG2025

On Hardening DNNs against Noisy Computations

Xiao Wang, Hendrik Borras, Bernhard Klein +1

The success of deep learning has sparked significant interest in designing computer hardware optimized for the high computational demands of neural network inference. As further mi…

cs.LG2024

Function Space Diversity for Uncertainty Prediction via Repulsive Last-Layer Ensembles

Sophie Steger, Christian Knoll, Bernhard Klein +2

Bayesian inference in function space has gained attention due to its robustness against overparameterization in neural networks. However, approximating the infinite-dimensional fun…

physics.optics2024★ 4 cited

Probabilistic Photonic Computing with Chaotic Light

Frank Brückerhoff-Plückelmann, Hendrik Borras, Bernhard Klein +10

Biological neural networks effortlessly tackle complex computational problems and excel at predicting outcomes from noisy, incomplete data, a task that poses significant challenges…

cs.AR2023

On the Non-Associativity of Analog Computations

Lisa Kuhn, Bernhard Klein, Holger Fröning

The energy efficiency of analog forms of computing makes it one of the most promising candidates to deploy resource-hungry machine learning tasks on resource-constrained system suc…

cs.LG2022

Towards Hardware-Specific Automatic Compression of Neural Networks

Torben Krieger, Bernhard Klein, Holger Fröning

Compressing neural network architectures is important to allow the deployment of models to embedded or mobile devices, and pruning and quantization are the major approaches to comp…

cs.LG2022

Walking Noise: On Layer-Specific Robustness of Neural Architectures against Noisy Computations and Associated Characteristic Learning Dynamics

Hendrik Borras, Bernhard Klein, Holger Fröning

Deep neural networks are extremely successful in various applications, however they exhibit high computational demands and energy consumption. This is exacerbated by stuttering tec…

cs.AR2021

Understanding Cache Boundness of ML Operators on ARM Processors

Bernhard Klein, Christoph Gratl, Manfred Mücke +1

Machine Learning compilers like TVM allow a fast and flexible deployment on embedded CPUs. This enables the use of non-standard operators, which are common in ML compression techni…