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Backpropagation through nonlinear neurons is an outstanding challenge to the field of optical neural networks and the major conceptual barrier to all-optical training schemes. Each neuron is required to exhibit a directionally dependent…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Xianxin Guo , Thomas D. Barrett , Zhiming M. Wang , A. I. Lvovsky

Neural network learning is usually time-consuming since backpropagation needs to compute full gradients and backpropagate them across multiple layers. Despite its success of existing works in accelerating propagation through sparseness, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Zhiyuan Zhang , Pengcheng Yang , Xuancheng Ren , Qi Su , Xu Sun

A novel technique for digital backpropagation (DBP) in wavelength-division multiplexing systems is introduced and shown, by simulations, to outperform existing DBP techniques for approximately the same complexity.

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-17 S. Civelli , E. Forestieri , A. Lotsmanov , D. Razdoburdin , M. Secondini

Kerr nonlinearity in the form of self- and cross-phase modulation imposes a fundamental limitation to the capacity of wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) optical communication systems. Digital back-propagation (DBP), that requires solving…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-15 Stavros Deligiannidis , Kyle R. H. Bottrill , Kostas Sozos , Charis Mesaritakis , Periklis Petropoulos , Adonis Bogris

The de facto algorithm for training the back pass of a feedforward neural network is backpropagation (BP). The use of almost-everywhere differentiable activation functions made it efficient and effective to propagate the gradient backwards…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-14 John Waldo

The backpropagation algorithm remains the dominant and most successful method for training deep neural networks (DNNs). At the same time, training DNNs at scale comes at a significant computational cost and therefore a high carbon…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Sander Dalm , Joshua Offergeld , Nasir Ahmad , Marcel van Gerven

Deep neural networks have become a pervasive tool in science and engineering. However, modern deep neural networks' growing energy requirements now increasingly limit their scaling and broader use. We propose a radical alternative for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Logan G. Wright , Tatsuhiro Onodera , Martin M. Stein , Tianyu Wang , Darren T. Schachter , Zoey Hu , Peter L. McMahon

In optical fiber communication, system identification (SI) for the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (NLSE) has long been studied mainly for fiber nonlinearity compensation (NLC). One recent line of inquiry to combine a behavioral-model…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-14 Takeo Sasai , Masanori Nakamura , Etsushi Yamazaki , Shuto Yamamoto , Hideki Nishizawa , Yoshiaki Kisaka

As deep learning applications continue to deploy increasingly large artificial neural networks, the associated high energy demands are creating a need for alternative neuromorphic approaches. Optics and photonics are particularly compelling…

Optics · Physics 2025-08-19 Nicola Dal Cin , Florian Marquardt , Clara C. Wanjura

As Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) grow in size and complexity, they often exceed the memory capacity of a single accelerator, necessitating the sharding of model parameters across multiple accelerators. Pipeline parallelism is a commonly used…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Christopher Rae , Joseph K. L. Lee , James Richings

Empowered by the backpropagation (BP) algorithm, deep neural networks have dominated the race in solving various cognitive tasks. The restricted training pattern in the standard BP requires end-to-end error propagation, causing large memory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Wenzhe Guo , Mohammed E Fouda , Ahmed M. Eltawil , Khaled N. Salama

Neural network pruning is one of the most popular methods of accelerating the inference of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs). The dominant pruning methods, filter-level pruning methods, evaluate their performance through the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Wenxiao Wang , Shuai Zhao , Minghao Chen , Jinming Hu , Deng Cai , Haifeng Liu

In fiber-optic communications, evaluation of mutual information (MI) is still an open issue due to the unavailability of an exact and mathematically tractable channel model. Traditionally, lower bounds on MI are computed by approximating…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Naga V. Irukulapati , Marco Secondini , Erik Agrell , Pontus Johannisson , Henk Wymeersch

Model-based deep learning (MBDL) is a powerful methodology for designing deep models to solve imaging inverse problems. MBDL networks can be seen as iterative algorithms that estimate the desired image using a physical measurement model and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-04 Chicago Y. Park , Weijie Gan , Zihao Zou , Yuyang Hu , Zhixin Sun , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

Integrated photonic neural networks (PNNs) have demonstrated significant potential to complement the digital electronic counterparts [1-3]. Nevertheless, robust and repeatable performance of scalable integrated PNNs is directly tied to the…

Optics · Physics 2025-06-18 Farshid Ashtiani , Mohamad Hossein Idjadi , Kwangwoong Kim

Recently, deep neural network (DNN) has been widely adopted in the design of intelligent communication systems thanks to its strong learning ability and low testing complexity. However, most current offline DNN-based methods still suffer…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Jiabao Gao , Caijun Zhong , Geoffrey Ye Li , Zhaoyang Zhang

The success of deep learning, a brain-inspired form of AI, has sparked interest in understanding how the brain could similarly learn across multiple layers of neurons. However, the majority of biologically-plausible learning algorithms have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Alexander Meulemans , Francesco S. Carzaniga , Johan A. K. Suykens , João Sacramento , Benjamin F. Grewe

Backward propagation of errors (backpropagation) is a method to minimize objective functions (e.g., loss functions) of deep neural networks by identifying optimal sets of weights and biases. Imposing constraints on weight precision is often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Guhyun Kim , Doo Seok Jeong

Training deep neural networks (DNNs) efficiently is a challenge due to the associated highly nonconvex optimization. The backpropagation (backprop) algorithm has long been the most widely used algorithm for gradient computation of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-28 Tim Tsz-Kit Lau , Jinshan Zeng , Baoyuan Wu , Yuan Yao

The artificial neural network is a popular framework in machine learning. To empower individual neurons, we recently suggested that the current type of neurons could be upgraded to 2nd order counterparts, in which the linear operation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Fenglei Fan , Wenxiang Cong , Ge Wang