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Re:Thermodynamic Natural Gradient Descent by uoaei on Friday May 24, 2024 @01:33PM (#40468440)
I believe one example would be quantum annealers. Where "programming" involves setting the right initial conditions and allowing thermodynamics to bring you to an optimum via relaxation.
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Re:Thermodynamic Natural Gradient Descent by mikewarot on Friday May 24, 2024 @02:09PM (#40468862)
Dwave[1] does compute that way already.

[1] https://www.dwavesys.com/

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Re:Thermodynamic Natural Gradient Descent by kaelan123 on Friday May 24, 2024 @02:19PM (#40468975)
One key difference is the system is entirely classical (not quantum) and noise-resilient (see the last appendix).
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