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The Discrete Langevin Machine: Bridging the Gap Between Thermodynamic and Neuromorphic Systems

Neural and Evolutionary Computing 2021-04-08 v3 High Energy Physics - Lattice Computational Physics

Abstract

A formulation of Langevin dynamics for discrete systems is derived as a class of generic stochastic processes. The dynamics simplify for a two-state system and suggest a network architecture which is implemented by the Langevin machine. The Langevin machine represents a promising approach to compute successfully quantitative exact results of Boltzmann distributed systems by LIF neurons. Besides a detailed introduction of the dynamics, different simplified models of a neuromorphic hardware system are studied with respect to a control of emerging sources of errors.

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@article{arxiv.1901.05214,
  title  = {The Discrete Langevin Machine: Bridging the Gap Between Thermodynamic and Neuromorphic Systems},
  author = {Lukas Kades and Jan M. Pawlowski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.05214},
  year   = {2021}
}

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25 pages, 16 figures