arXiv AI By Koen Vellenga, H. Joe Steinhauer, G\"oran Falkman, Jonas Andersson, Anders Sj\"ogren

Last Layer Hamiltonian Monte Carlo

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arXiv:2507. 08905v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We explore the use of Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC) sampling as a probabilistic last layer approach for deep neural networks (DNNs).

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