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Photonic neuromorphic computing promises revolutionary advances in parallel and high-speed processing, yet a key challenge persists: co-integrating nonlinearity, dense connectivity, and intrinsic memory monolithically to enable…

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…

In an age overrun with information, the ability to process reams of data has become crucial. The demand for data will continue to grow as smart gadgets multiply and become increasingly integrated into our daily lives. Next-generation…

With the recent advances in optical phase change material (PCM), photonic in-memory neurocomputing has demonstrated its superiority in optical neural network (ONN) designs with near-zero static power consumption, time-of-light latency, and…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Hanqing Zhu , Jiaqi Gu , Chenghao Feng , Mingjie Liu , Zixuan Jiang , Ray T. Chen , David Z. Pan

Optics and photonics has recently captured interest as a platform to accelerate linear matrix processing, that has been deemed as a bottleneck in traditional digital electronic architectures. In this paper, we propose an all-photonic…

Photonic systems for high-performance information processing have attracted renewed interest. Neuromorphic silicon photonics has the potential to integrate processing functions that vastly exceed the capabilities of electronics. We report…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-11-17 Alexander N. Tait , Thomas Ferreira de Lima , Ellen Zhou , Allie X. Wu , Mitchell A. Nahmias , Bhavin J. Shastri , Paul R. Prucnal

The rapid evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) is leading to a new generation of hardware accelerators optimized for deep learning. Some of the designs of these accelerators are general enough to allow their use for other…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Fantine Huot , Yi-Fan Chen , Robert Clapp , Carlos Boneti , John Anderson

Tensor cores are specialized processing units within GPUs that have demonstrated significant efficiency gains in compute-bound applications such as Deep Learning Training by accelerating dense matrix operations. Given their success,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Lingqi Zhang , Jiajun Huang , Sheng Di , Satoshi Matsuoka , Mohamed Wahib

Modern graphics computing units (GPUs) are designed and optimized to perform highly parallel numerical calculations. This parallelism has enabled (and promises) significant advantages, both in terms of energy performance and calculation. In…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Quentin Gallouédec

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

Due to challenging efficiency limits facing conventional and unconventional electronic architectures, information processors based on photonics have attracted renewed interest. Research communities have yet to settle on definitive…

Optics · Physics 2022-05-19 Alexander N. Tait

Neuromorphic (brain-inspired) photonics leverages photonic chips to accelerate artificial intelligence, offering high-speed and energy efficient solutions in RF communication, tensor processing, and data classification. However, the limited…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-16 Tristan Austin , Simon Bilodeau , Andrew Hayman , Nir Rotenberg , Bhavin Shastri

The subset sum problem is a typical NP-complete problem that is hard to solve efficiently in time due to the intrinsic superpolynomial-scaling property. Increasing the problem size results in a vast amount of time consuming in…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Xiao-Yun Xu , Xuan-Lun Huang , Zhan-Ming Li , Jun Gao , Zhi-Qiang Jiao , Yao Wang , Ruo-Jing Ren , H. P. Zhang , Xian-Min Jin

The wide adoption and significant computing resource of attention-based transformers, e.g., Vision Transformers and large language models (LLM), have driven the demand for efficient hardware accelerators. There is a growing interest in…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Hanqing Zhu , Jiaqi Gu , Hanrui Wang , Zixuan Jiang , Zhekai Zhang , Rongxing Tang , Chenghao Feng , Song Han , Ray T. Chen , David Z. Pan

The rapid growth of brain-inspired computing coupled with the inefficiencies in the CMOS implementations of neuromrphic systems has led to intense exploration of efficient hardware implementations of the functional units of the brain,…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Indranil Chakraborty , Gobinda Saha , Abhronil Sengupta , Kaushik Roy

Driven by deep learning, there has been a surge of specialized processors for matrix multiplication, referred to as TensorCore Units (TCUs). These TCUs are capable of performing matrix multiplications on small matrices (usually 4x4 or…

Performance · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Abdul Dakkak , Cheng Li , Isaac Gelado , Jinjun Xiong , Wen-mei Hwu

Neural networks find widespread use in scientific and technological applications, yet their implementations in conventional computers have encountered bottlenecks due to ever-expanding computational needs. Photonic neuromorphic hardware,…

Photons are promising candidates for quantum information technology due to their high robustness and long coherence time at room temperature. Inspired by the prosperous development of photonic computing techniques, recent research has…

Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) are specialized hardware accelerators for deep learning developed by Google. This paper aims to explore TPUs in cloud and edge computing focusing on its applications in AI. We provide an overview of TPUs,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Diego Sanmartín Carrión , Vera Prohaska

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…