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1 January 1987 Optical Implementations In Boltzmann Machines
Anthony J. Ticknor, Harrison H. Barrett
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Optical Engineering, Vol. 26, Issue 1, 260116 (January 1987). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.7974015
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Boltzmann machines can be used to obtain solutions to problems for which direct mathematical calculation of a solution is not possible or would take too long. The range of problems for which such a machine might be useful is very broad, and inversion of a linear equation is described as one example. A method is described that allows time-intensive operations on a computer to be replaced with a highly parallel optical system that can be incorporated in such a way as to let the computer take full advantage of the speed of the optics without sacrificing the precision possible in the computer. A tie is made between Boltzmann machines and neural networks, and it is shown how a Boltzmann machine may perform functions demonstrated by other neural network architectures.
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Anthony J. Ticknor and Harrison H. Barrett "Optical Implementations In Boltzmann Machines," Optical Engineering 26(1), 260116 (1 January 1987). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.7974015
Published: 1 January 1987
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