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This paper investigates the use of artificial neural networks (ANNs) to solve differential equations (DEs) and the construction of the loss function which meets both differential equation and its initial/boundary condition of a certain DE.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Xiao Xiong

This paper presents a novel Generative Neural Network Architecture for modelling the inverse function of an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) either completely or partially. Modelling the complete inverse function of an ANN involves…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Mohammad Aaftab , Mansi Sharma

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)…

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been widely applied. But as the CNNs grow, the number of arithmetic operations and memory footprint also increase. Furthermore, typical non-linear activation functions do not allow associativity of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Eduardo Vera Sousa , Leandro A. F. Fernandes , Cristina Nader Vasconcelos

The increasing complexity of neural networks and the energy consumption associated with training and inference create a need for alternative neuromorphic approaches, e.g. using optics. Current proposals and implementations rely on physical…

Optics · Physics 2023-08-31 Clara C. Wanjura , Florian Marquardt

With recent rapid advances in photonic integrated circuits, it has been demonstrated that programmable photonic chips can be used to implement artificial neural networks. Convolutional neural networks (CNN) are a class of deep learning…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-30 Jun Rong Ong , Chin Chun Ooi , Thomas Y. L. Ang , Soon Thor Lim , Ching Eng Png

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…

Recently, optical neural networks (ONNs) integrated in photonic chips has received extensive attention because they are expected to implement the same pattern recognition tasks in the electronic platforms with high efficiency and low power…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Tian Zhang , Jia Wang , Yihang Dan , Yuxiang Lanqiu , Jian Dai , Xu Han , Xiaojuan Sun , Kun Xu

The paper presents Multi-layer Auto Resonance Networks (ARN), a new neural model, for image recognition. Neurons in ARN, called Nodes, latch on to an incoming pattern and resonate when the input is within its 'coverage.' Resonance allows…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Shilpa Mayannavar , Uday Wali , V M Aparanji

Oscillator neural networks (ONN) are a promising hardware option for artificial intelligence. With an abundance of theoretical treatments of ONNs, few experimental implementations exist to date. In contrast to prior publications of only…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-10-28 D. E. Nikonov , P. Kurahashi , J. S. Ayers , H. -J. Lee , Y. Fan , I. A. Young

Recent advancements in optical computing have garnered considerable research interests owing to its ener-gy-efficient operation and ultralow latency characteristics. As an emerging framework in this domain, dif-fractive deep neural networks…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-06-24 Yudong Tian , Haifeng Xu , Yuqing Liu , Xiangyu Zhao , Jingzhu Shao , Jierong Cheng , Chongzhao Wu

The development of viable all-optical data processing systems has immense importance for both the computing and telecommunication industries, but device realization remains elusive. In this Letter, we propose an innovative mechanism…

Optics · Physics 2012-06-21 David L. Andrews , David S. Bradshaw

Artificial neural networks (ANNs) have fundamentally transformed the field of computer vision, providing unprecedented performance. However, these ANNs for image processing demand substantial computational resources, often hindering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Minho Choi , Jinlin Xiang , Anna Wirth-Singh , Seung-Hwan Baek , Eli Shlizerman , Arka Majumdar

Optical neural networks (ONNs) have gained significant attention due to their potential for high-speed and energy-efficient computation in artificial intelligence. The implementation of optical convolutions plays a vital role in ONNs, as…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Shiji Zhang , Haojun Zhou , Bo Wu , Xueyi Jiang , Dingshan Gao , Jing Xu , Jianji Dong , Xinliang Zhang

Biological neural networks effortlessly tackle complex computational problems and excel at predicting outcomes from noisy, incomplete data, a task that poses significant challenges to traditional processors. Artificial neural networks…

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

In recent years, machine vision has taken huge leaps and is now becoming an integral part of various intelligent systems, including autonomous vehicles, robotics, and many others. Usually, visual information is captured by a frame-based…

Optical computing systems deliver unrivalled processing speeds for scalar operations. Yet, integrated implementations have been constrained to low-dimensional tensor operations that fall short of the vector dimensions required for modern…

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

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