Who needs qubits? Factoring algorithm run on a probabilistic computer It shares some features with quantum annealers, but it's easier to build and operate.

Richard M. Karp, Rajeev Motwani, Noam Nisan, Probabilistic Analysis of Network Flow Algorithms, Mathematics of Operations Research, Vol. 18, No. 1 (Feb., 1993), pp. 71-97 ...

Probabilistic Programming and Inference Algorithms Publication Trend The graph below shows the total number of publications each year in Probabilistic Programming and Inference Algorithms.

Martin Seysen, A Probabilistic Factorization Algorithm with Quadratic Forms of Negative Discriminant, Mathematics of Computation, Vol. 48, No. 178 (Apr., 1987), pp ...

"They're almost the same thing. Removing randomness from probabilistic algorithms, and proving hardness of computational problems are, sort-of, dual problems." ...