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most citedScalable Bayesian Learning with posteriors

3 citations · 8 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

cs.ET2026

CN101 - A Digital Thermodynamic Computer for Generative AI

Lars Holdijk, Denis Melanson, Zier Mensch +14

Thermodynamic computing is an emerging hardware paradigm, in which stochastic physical dynamics serve as the direct computational primitive. The recent explosion of generative AI h…

stat.ML2026

Robust Stochastic Gradient Posterior Sampling with Lattice Based Discretisation

Zier Mensch, Lars Holdijk, Samuel Duffield +4

Stochastic-gradient MCMC methods enable scalable Bayesian posterior sampling but often suffer from sensitivity to minibatch size and gradient noise. To address this, we propose Sto…

math.NA2025

Lattice Random Walk Discretisations of Stochastic Differential Equations

Samuel Duffield, Maxwell Aifer, Denis Melanson +2

We introduce a lattice random walk discretisation scheme for stochastic differential equations (SDEs) that samples binary or ternary increments at each step, suppressing complex dr…

cs.ET2025

Scalable Thermodynamic Second-order Optimization

Kaelan Donatella, Samuel Duffield, Denis Melanson +7

Many hardware proposals have aimed to accelerate inference in AI workloads. Less attention has been paid to hardware acceleration of training, despite the enormous societal impact…

cond-mat.stat-mech2024

Thermodynamic Bayesian Inference

Maxwell Aifer, Samuel Duffield, Kaelan Donatella +6

A fully Bayesian treatment of complicated predictive models (such as deep neural networks) would enable rigorous uncertainty quantification and the automation of higher-level tasks…

cs.LG2024★ 3 cited

Scalable Bayesian Learning with posteriors

Samuel Duffield, Kaelan Donatella, Johnathan Chiu +2

Although theoretically compelling, Bayesian learning with modern machine learning models is computationally challenging since it requires approximating a high dimensional posterior…

cs.LG2024★ 3 cited

Thermodynamic Natural Gradient Descent

Kaelan Donatella, Samuel Duffield, Maxwell Aifer +3

Second-order training methods have better convergence properties than gradient descent but are rarely used in practice for large-scale training due to their computational overhead.…

cs.CV2023

Exploiting Inductive Biases in Video Modeling through Neural CDEs

Johnathan Chiu, Samuel Duffield, Max Hunter-Gordon +3

We introduce a novel approach to video modeling that leverages controlled differential equations (CDEs) to address key challenges in video tasks, notably video interpolation and ma…

cond-mat.stat-mech2023★ 2 cited

Thermodynamic Matrix Exponentials and Thermodynamic Parallelism

Samuel Duffield, Maxwell Aifer, Gavin Crooks +2

Thermodynamic computing exploits fluctuations and dissipation in physical systems to efficiently solve various mathematical problems. For example, it was recently shown that certai…