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Article Dans Une Revue IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing Année : 2016

Design of Stochastic Machines Dedicated to Approximate Bayesian inferences

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We present an architecture and a compilation toolchain for stochastic machines dedicated to Bayesian inferences. These machines are not Von Neumann and code information with stochastic bitstreams instead of using floating point representations. They only rely on stochastic arithmetic and on Gibbs sampling to perform approximate inferences. They use banks of binary random generators which capture the prior knowledge on which the inference is built. The output of the machine is devised to continuously sample the joint probability distribution of interest. While the method is explained on a simple example, we show that our machine computes a good approximation of the solution to a problem intractable in exact inference.
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hal-01374906 , version 1 (02-10-2016)

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Marvin Faix, Raphä El Laurent, Pierre Bessière, Emmanuel Mazer, Jacques Droulez. Design of Stochastic Machines Dedicated to Approximate Bayesian inferences. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, 2016, ⟨10.1109/TETC.2016.2609926⟩. ⟨hal-01374906⟩
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