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Recent success in training deep neural networks have prompted active investigation into the features learned on their intermediate layers. Such research is difficult because it requires making sense of non-linear computations performed by…

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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…

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Optical neural networks (ONNs) based on programmable photonic integrated circuits (PICs) offer a promising route toward low-latency and energy-efficient deep learning. However, conventional photonic implementations of matrix-vector…

We introduce a robust, error-tolerant adaptive training algorithm for generalized learning paradigms in high-dimensional superposed quantum networks, or \emph{adaptive quantum networks}. The formalized procedure applies standard…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2015-05-13 Christopher Altman , Romàn R. Zapatrin

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…

Nonlinear computation is essential for various information processing tasks. Optical implementations are attractive because passive light propagation can manipulate high-dimensional signals with extreme throughput and parallelism; yet…

Recent research efforts in optical computing have gravitated towards developing optical neural networks that aim to benefit from the processing speed and parallelism of optics/photonics in machine learning applications. Among these…

Optics · Physics 2020-12-25 Deniz Mengu , Yair Rivenson , Aydogan Ozcan

Driven by the remarkable breakthroughs during the past decade, photonics neural networks have experienced a revival. Here, we provide a general overview of progress over the past decade, and sketch a roadmap of important future…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Daniel Brunner , Laurent Larger , Miguel C. Soriano

As deep neural networks (DNNs) revolutionize machine learning, energy consumption and throughput are emerging as fundamental limitations of CMOS electronics. This has motivated a search for new hardware architectures optimized for…

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

We introduce an all-optical Diffractive Deep Neural Network (D2NN) architecture that can learn to implement various functions after deep learning-based design of passive diffractive layers that work collectively. We experimentally…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-09-26 Xing Lin , Yair Rivenson , Nezih T. Yardimci , Muhammed Veli , Mona Jarrahi , Aydogan Ozcan

Photonic computing is a computing paradigm which have great potential to overcome the energy bottlenecks of electronic von Neumann architecture. Throughput and power consumption are fundamental limitations of…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Saurabh Ranjan , Sonika Thakral , Amit Sehgal

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Ali Cem , Siqi Yan , Yunhong Ding , Darko Zibar , Francesco Da Ros

Backpropagation is a cornerstone algorithm in training neural networks for supervised learning, which uses a gradient descent method to update network weights by minimizing the discrepancy between actual and desired outputs. Despite its…

The field of artificial intelligence faces significant challenges in achieving both biological plausibility and computational efficiency, particularly in visual learning tasks. Current artificial neural networks, such as convolutional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Jacobo Ruiz , Manas Gupta

The ever-increasing data demand craves advancements in high-speed and energy-efficient computing hardware. Analog optical neural network (ONN) processors have emerged as a promising solution, offering benefits in bandwidth and energy…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-07 Chao Luan , Ronald Davis , Zaijun Chen , Dirk Englund , Ryan Hamerly

Photonic neural networks are brain-inspired information processing technology using photons instead of electrons to perform artificial intelligence (AI) tasks. However, existing architectures are designed for a single task but fail to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Zhengyang Duan , Hang Chen , Xing Lin

Deep learning is able to functionally simulate the human brain and thus, it has attracted considerable interest. Optics-assisted deep learning is a promising approach to improve the forward-propagation speed and reduce the power…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-08 Zhixing Lin , Shuqian Sun , Jose Azana , Wei Li , Ninghua Zhu , Ming Li

Rapid advancements in deep learning over the past decade have fueled an insatiable demand for efficient and scalable hardware. Photonics offers a promising solution by leveraging the unique properties of light. However, conventional neural…

Recent breakthroughs in photonics-based quantum, neuromorphic and analogue processing have pointed out the need for new schemes for fully programmable nanophotonic devices. Universal optical elements based on interferometer meshes are…