Stochastic Digital Circuits for Probabilistic Inference

We introduce combinational stochastic logic, an abstraction that generalizes deterministic digital circuit design (based on Boolean logic gates) to the probabilistic setting. We show how this logic can be combined with techniques from contemporary digital design to generate stateless and stateful ci...

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Main Authors: Tenenbaum, Joshua B., Jonas, Eric M., Mansinghka, Vikash K.
Other Authors: Joshua Tenenbaum
Published: 2008
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/43712