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most citedThermodynamic Computing System for AI Applications

4 citations · 10 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…

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…

cs.ET2024★ 1 cited

Thermodynamic Algorithms for Quadratic Programming

Patryk-Lipka Bartosik, Kaelan Donatella, Maxwell Aifer +4

Thermodynamic computing has emerged as a promising paradigm for accelerating computation by harnessing the thermalization properties of physical systems. This work introduces a nov…

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

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.ET2024★ 2 cited

Error Mitigation for Thermodynamic Computing

Maxwell Aifer, Denis Melanson, Kaelan Donatella +3

While physics-based computing can offer speed and energy efficiency compared to digital computing, it also is subject to errors that must be mitigated. For example, many error miti…

cs.ET2023★ 4 cited

Thermodynamic Computing System for AI Applications

Denis Melanson, Mohammad Abu Khater, Maxwell Aifer +7

Recent breakthroughs in artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms have highlighted the need for novel computing hardware in order to truly unlock the potential for AI. Physics-based…

cs.ET2023

Thermodynamic AI and the fluctuation frontier

Patrick J. Coles, Collin Szczepanski, Denis Melanson +3

Many Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms are inspired by physics and employ stochastic fluctuations. We connect these physics-inspired AI algorithms by unifying them under a si…