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Deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) are widely used in modern artificial intelligence (AI) and smart vision systems but also limited by computation latency, throughput, and energy efficiency on a resource-limited scenario, such as…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2017-09-18 Yuan Du , Li Du , Yilei Li , Junjie Su , Mau-Chung Frank Chang

Acceleration of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) on edge devices has recently achieved a remarkable performance in image classification and object detection applications. This paper proposes an efficient and scalable CNN-based SoC-FPGA…

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Photonic integrated circuits are facilitating the development of optical neural networks, which have the potential to be both faster and more energy efficient than their electronic counterparts since optical signals are especially…

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Photonic computing is a compelling avenue for performing highly efficient matrix multiplication, a crucial operation in Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). While this method has shown great success in DNN inference, meeting the high precision…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Cansu Demirkiran , Guowei Yang , Darius Bunandar , Ajay Joshi

As electronic computing approaches its performance limits, photonic accelerators have emerged as promising alternatives. Photonic accelerators exploiting semiconductor-laser synchronization have been studied for decision-making. While…

Photonic neural networks benefit from both the high channel capacity- and the wave nature of light acting as an effective weighting mechanism through linear optics. The neuron's activation function, however, requires nonlinearity which can…

Conventional integrated circuits (ICs) struggle to meet the escalating demands of artificial intelligence (AI). This has sparked a renewed interest in an unconventional computing paradigm: neuromorphic (brain-inspired) computing. However,…

Over the past few years, silicon photonics-based computing has emerged as a promising alternative to CMOS-based computing for Deep Neural Networks (DNN). Unfortunately, the non-linear operations and the high-precision requirements of DNNs…

The rapid growth in computing demands, particularly driven by artificial intelligence applications, has begun to exceed the capabilities of traditional electronic hardware. Optical computing offers a promising alternative due to its…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Shupeng Ning , Hanqing Zhu , Chenghao Feng , Jiaqi Gu , David Z. Pan , Ray T. Chen

Matrix multiplication is a fundamental kernel in large-scale artificial intelligence and scientific computing, but its performance on conventional electronic accelerators is increasingly constrained by memory bandwidth and energy…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Hailong Gong , Haibo Zhang , Amanda S. Barnard , Mahbub Hassan , Matt Woolley , Rajkumar Buyya

Many edge devices employ Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) to enhance their product intelligence. However, the increasing computation complexity poses challenges for performance, energy efficiency and product development time. In this paper,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Chao-Yang Kao , Huang-Chih Kuo , Jian-Wen Chen , Chiung-Liang Lin , Pin-Han Chen , Youn-Long Lin

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

Neural networks are one of the disruptive computing concepts of our time. However, they fundamentally differ from classical, algorithmic computing in a number of fundamental aspects. These differences result in equally fundamental, severe…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Xavier Porte , Anas Skalli , Nasibeh Haghighi , Stephan Reitzenstein , James A. Lott , Daniel Brunner

Inverse-designed nanophotonic devices offer promising solutions for analog optical computation. High-density photonic integration is critical for scaling such architectures toward more complex computational tasks and large-scale…

Optics · Physics 2025-06-09 Joel Sved , Shijie Song , Liwei Li , George Li , Debin Meng , Xiaoke Yi

Photonic computation started to shape the future of fast, efficient and accessible computation. The advantages brought by light based Diffractive Deep Neural Networks (D2NN), are shown to be overwhelmingly advantageous especially in…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-10 Anil J. Pekgöz , Emre Yüce

Advances in quantum technologies are accelerating the demand for optical quantum state sensors that combine high precision, versatility, and scalability within a unified hardware platform. Quantum reservoir computing offers a powerful route…

Domain-specific neural network accelerators have seen growing interest in recent years due to their improved energy efficiency and inference performance compared to CPUs and GPUs. In this paper, we propose a novel cross-layer optimized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Febin Sunny , Asif Mirza , Mahdi Nikdast , Sudeep Pasricha

Deep neural networks with applications from computer vision and image processing to medical diagnosis are commonly implemented using clock-based processors, where computation speed is limited by the clock frequency and the memory access…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Farshid Ashtiani , Alexander J. Geers , Firooz Aflatouni

Convolutional neural network (CNN) offers significant accuracy in image detection. To implement image detection using CNN in the internet of things (IoT) devices, a streaming hardware accelerator is proposed. The proposed accelerator…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-12 Li Du , Yuan Du , Yilei Li , Mau-Chung Frank Chang

Diffusion models have revolutionized generative AI, with their inherent capacity to generate highly realistic state-of-the-art synthetic data. However, these models employ an iterative denoising process over computationally intensive layers…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Tharini Suresh , Salma Afifi , Sudeep Pasricha