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Deep networks are now able to achieve human-level performance on a broad spectrum of recognition tasks. Independently, neuromorphic computing has now demonstrated unprecedented energy-efficiency through a new chip architecture based on…

The explosive growth of computation and energy cost of artificial intelligence has spurred strong interests in new computing modalities as potential alternatives to conventional electronic processors. Photonic processors that execute…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Kaixuan Wei , Xiao Li , Johannes Froech , Praneeth Chakravarthula , James Whitehead , Ethan Tseng , Arka Majumdar , Felix Heide

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have been the centerpiece of many applications including but not limited to computer vision, speech processing, and Natural Language Processing (NLP). However, the computationally expensive convolution…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Armin Mehrabian , Yousra Al-Kabani , Volker J Sorger , Tarek El-Ghazawi

Photonic Neural Network implementations have been gaining considerable attention as a potentially disruptive future technology. Demonstrating learning in large scale neural networks is essential to establish photonic machine learning…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Julian Bueno , Sheler Maktoobi , Luc Froehly , Ingo Fischer , Maxime Jacquot , Laurent Larger , Daniel Brunner

The recent explosive compute growth, mainly fueled by the boost of AI and DNNs, is currently instigating the demand for a novel computing paradigm that can overcome the insurmountable barriers imposed by conventional electronic computing…

Neuromorphic computing systems emulate the electrophysiological behavior of the biological nervous system using mixed-mode analog or digital VLSI circuits. These systems show superior accuracy and power efficiency in carrying out cognitive…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-26 Aadhitiya VS , Jani Babu Shaik , Sonal Singhal , Siona Menezes Picardo , Nilesh Goel

The ever-increasing demand for Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems is underlining a significant requirement for new, AI-optimised hardware. Neuromorphic (brain-like) processors are one highly-promising solution, with photonic-enabled…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Joshua Robertson , Paul Kirkland , Juan Arturo Alanis , Matěj Hejda , Julián Bueno , Gaetano Di Caterina , Antonio Hurtado

We design and model a single-layer, passive, all-optical silicon photonics neural network to mitigate optical link nonlinearities. The network nodes are formed by silicon microring resonators whose transfer function has been experimentally…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-01 Mattia Mancinelli , Paolo Bettotti , Lorenzo Pavesi

In this work we provide numerical results concerning a silicon-on-insulator photonic neuromorphic circuit configured as a physical unclonable function. The proposed scheme is enhanced with the capability to be operated as an unconventional…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Dimitris Dermanis , Panagiotis Rizomiliotis , Adonis Bogris , Charis Mesaritakis

Photonic Spiking Neural Networks (PSNN) composed of the co-integrated CMOS and photonic elements can offer low loss, low power, highly-parallel, and high-throughput computing for brain-inspired neuromorphic systems. In addition,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-28 Yun-Jhu Lee , Mehmet Berkay On , Luis El Srouji , Li Zhang , Mahmoud Abdelghany , S. J. Ben Yoo

In this work, we present and experimentally validate a passive photonic-integrated neuromorphic accelerator that uses a hardware-friendly optical spectrum slicing technique through a reconfigurable silicon photonic mesh. The proposed scheme…

Software-implementation, via neural networks, of brain-inspired computing approaches underlie many important modern-day computational tasks, from image processing to speech recognition, artificial intelligence and deep learning…

Optics · Physics 2021-02-19 J. Feldmann , N. Youngblood , C. D. Wright , H. Bhaskaran , W. H. P. Pernice

Neuromorphic photonic accelerators are becoming increasingly popular, since they can significantly improve computation speed and energy efficiency, leading to femtojoule per MAC efficiency. However, deploying existing DL models on such…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Manos Kirtas , Nikolaos Passalis , Nikolaos Pleros , Anastasios Tefas

Deep neural networks (DNN) consist of layers of neurons interconnected by synaptic weights. A high bit-precision in weights is generally required to guarantee high accuracy in many applications. Minimizing error accumulation between layers…

Neuromorphic chip refers to an unconventional computing architecture that is modelled on biological brains. It is ideally suited for processing sensory data for intelligence computing, decision-making or context cognition. Despite rapid…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-09-09 Shuchao Qin , Fengqiu Wang , Yujie Liu , Qing Wan , Xinran Wang , Yongbing Xu , Yi Shi , Xiaomu Wang , Rong Zhang

Photonic computing shows great potential for signal processing and artificial intelligence (AI) acceleration due to its ultra-high speed, low energy consumption, and inherent parallelism. Existing photonic computing research has mainly…

In recent years, neuromorphic computing and spiking neural networks (SNNs) have ad-vanced rapidly through integration with deep learning. However, the performance of SNNs still lags behind that of convolutional neural networks (CNNs),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Hsieh Ching-Teng , Wang Yuan-Kai

Recent developments in the interfacing of neurons with silicon chips may pave the way for progress in constructing scalable neurocomputers. The assembly of synthetic neuronal networks with predefined synaptic connections and controlled…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2009-01-16 Nikesh S. Dattani

Artificial neural networks are efficient computing platforms inspired by the brain. Such platforms can tackle a vast area of real-life tasks ranging from image processing to language translation. Silicon photonic integrated chips (PICs), by…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-10-19 George Sarantoglou , Adonis Bogris , Charis Mesaritakis , Sergios Theodoridis

Emergent learning transforms a disordered optical medium into a photonic device capable of storage, recognition, and classification of arbitrary memory patterns. First, we show that the intensity at the output of a multiply scattering…