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Artificial neural networks (ANNs) have now been widely used for industry applications and also played more important roles in fundamental researches. Although most ANN hardware systems are electronically based, optical implementation is…

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

Real-world blind denoising poses a unique image restoration challenge due to the non-deterministic nature of the underlying noise distribution. Prevalent discriminative networks trained on synthetic noise models have been shown to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Junaid Malik , Serkan Kiranyaz , Mehmet Yamac , Esin Guldogan , Moncef Gabbouj

Recently, there are increasing efforts on advancing optical neural networks (ONNs), which bring significant advantages for machine learning (ML) in terms of power efficiency, parallelism, and computational speed. With the considerable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Yingjie Li , Weilu Gao , Cunxi Yu

Programmable optical neural networks (ONNs) can offer high-throughput and energy-efficient solutions for accelerating artificial intelligence (AI) computing. However, existing ONN architectures, typically based on cascaded unitary…

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have provided brilliant performance across various tasks. However, this success often comes at the cost of unnecessarily large model sizes, high computational demands, and substantial memory footprints.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Shaharyar Ahmed Khan Tareen , Filza Khan Tareen

Discriminative learning based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) aims to perform image restoration by learning from training examples of noisy-clean image pairs. It has become the go-to methodology for tackling image restoration and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Junaid Malik , Serkan Kiranyaz , Moncef Gabbouj

Neuromorphic engineering has emerged as a promising avenue for developing brain-inspired computational systems. However, conventional electronic AI-based processors often encounter challenges related to processing speed and thermal…

Optics · Physics 2025-01-03 Reyhane Ahmadi , Amirreza Ahmadnejad , Somayyeh Koohi

Silicon-photonics-based optical neural network (ONN) is a promising hardware platform that could represent a paradigm shift in efficient AI with its CMOS-compatibility, flexibility, ultra-low execution latency, and high energy efficiency.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Jiaqi Gu , Hanqing Zhu , Chenghao Feng , Zixuan Jiang , Ray T. Chen , David Z. Pan

Increasing the layer number of on-chip photonic neural networks (PNNs) is essential to improve its model performance. However, the successively cascading of network hidden layers results in larger integrated photonic chip areas. To address…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Yun Zhao , Hang Chen , Min Lin , Haiou Zhang , Tao Yan , Xing Lin , Ruqi Huang , Qionghai Dai

Hybrid Optical Neural Networks (ONNs, typically consisting of an optical frontend and a digital backend) offer an energy-efficient alternative to fully digital deep networks for real-time, power-constrained systems. However, their adoption…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Jinlin Xiang , Minho Choi , Yubo Zhang , Zhihao Zhou , Arka Majumdar , Eli Shlizerman

Compared with electrical neural networks, optical neural networks (ONNs) have the potentials to break the limit of the bandwidth and reduce the consumption of energy, and therefore draw much attention in recent years. By far, several types…

Optics · Physics 2024-02-02 Yifan Sun , Qian Li , Ling-Jun Kong , Xiangdong Zhang

The optical neural network (ONN) is a promising hardware platform for next-generation neuromorphic computing due to its high parallelism, low latency, and low energy consumption. However, previous integrated photonic tensor cores (PTCs)…

We demonstrate the utility of machine learning algorithms for the design of Oscillatory Neural Networks (ONNs). After constructing a circuit model of the oscillators in a machine-learning-enabled simulator and performing Backpropagation…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-09-07 Tamas Rudner , Wolfgang Porod , Gyorgy Csaba

Optical neural networks (ONNs) have been developed to enhance processing speed and energy efficiency in machine learning by leveraging optical devices for nonlinear activation and establishing connections among neurons. In this work, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-11 Chuanzhou Zhu , Tianyu Wang , Peter L. McMahon , Daniel Soh

User response prediction makes a crucial contribution to the rapid development of online advertising system and recommendation system. The importance of learning feature interactions has been emphasized by many works. Many deep models are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Yi Yang , Baile Xu , Furao Shen , Jian Zhao

For the benefit of designing scalable, fault resistant optical neural networks (ONNs), we investigate the effects architectural designs have on the ONNs' robustness to imprecise components. We train two ONNs -- one with a more tunable…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Michael Y. -S. Fang , Sasikanth Manipatruni , Casimir Wierzynski , Amir Khosrowshahi , Michael R. DeWeese

The use of machine learning methods to tackle challenging physical layer signal processing tasks has attracted significant attention. In this work, we focus on the use of neural networks (NNs) to perform pilot-assisted channel estimation in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-26 Michel van Lier , Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming , Henk Corporaaal , Zoran Zivkovic

Optical neural networks (ONNs), or optical neuromorphic hardware accelerators, have the potential to dramatically enhance the computing power and energy efficiency of mainstream electronic processors, due to their ultralarge bandwidths of…

The energy consumption of neural network inference has become a topic of paramount importance with the growing success and adoption of deep neural networks. Analog optical neural networks (ONNs) can reduce the energy of matrix-vector…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Marc Gong Bacvanski , Sri Krishna Vadlamani , Kfir Sulimany , Dirk Robert Englund