Tobias J. Osborne

How to train your slop cannon: A short guide to using large language models for research in the natural sciences

Large Language Models are transforming mathematics and the physical sciences, allowing scientists to explore ideas quickly and raise their sights to grand challenges. But they also produce plausible but wrong text at industrial scale. Staying afloat in this torrent of slop requir...

Stochastic neural networks for quantum devices

Abstract This work presents a formulation to express and optimize stochastic neural networks as quantum circuits in gate-based quantum computing. Motivated by a classical perceptron, stochastic artificial neurons are introduced and combined into a quantum neural network. The Kief...