Ultrafast Boltzmann Sampling using Photonic Ising Machines for Machine Learning Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Ising machines have emerged as a promising computational concept that specializes in solving resource intensive optimization problems. Their operation is based on mapping a problem’s cost function to a network of coupled Ising spins whose energy is described by the Ising Hamiltonian. Such a spin system can be emulated on a network of bistable analog oscillators and the tendency of this system to evolve to the lowest energy configuration is then ...