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Thermodynamic computing system for AI applications

delete2025-04-22
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Denis Melanson
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Mohammad Abu Khater
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Maxwell Aifer
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Kaelan Donatella
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Max Hunter Gordon
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Thomas D. Ahle
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Gavin E. Crooks
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Antonio Martinez
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Faris M. Sbahi
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Patrick J. Coles *
DOI：10.1038/s41467-025-59011-xdelete
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Recent breakthroughs in artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms have highlighted the need for alternative computing hardware in order to truly unlock the potential for AI. Physics-based hardware, such as thermodynamic computing, has the potential to provide a fast, low-power means to accelerate AI primitives, especially generative AI and probabilistic AI. In this work, we present a small-scale thermodynamic computer, which we call the stochastic processing unit. This device is composed of RLC circuits, as unit cells, on a printed circuit board, with 8 unit cells that are all-to-all coupled via switched capacitances. It can be used for either sampling or linear algebra primitives, and we demonstrate Gaussian sampling and matrix inversion on our hardware. The latter represents a thermodynamic linear algebra experiment. We envision that this hardware, when scaled up in size, will have significant impact on accelerating various probabilistic AI applications.

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Nature Communications cover
Nature Communications
IF:
15.7
Papers:
9.2W
Citations:
91.2W

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