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Brad Aimone
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Computational neuroscientist-in-exile; computational neuromorphic computing; putting neurons in HPC since 2011; dreaming of a day when AI will actually be brain-like.
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The paper – which is pretty short – goes into all of the details. But punchlines: 1) it works. With minimal impact on training, majority vote of samples gets pretty close to deterministic accuracy in classification. 6/

1st choice results of synapse sampled ANN
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2) More interestingly, the 2nd most popular choice reflects uncertainty you would naively expect.  Shirts and jackets on Fashion MNIST; dogs and deer on CIFAR-10.  1’s and 7’s on MNIST. 3) This amazingly seems pretty robust to precision in the probabilities. 7/

2nd choice of synapse sampled ANN
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Computational neuroscientist-in-exile; computational neuromorphic computing; putting neurons in HPC since 2011; dreaming of a day when AI will actually be brain-like.
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