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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…

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Neuromorphic computing, inspired by the brain, promises extreme efficiency for certain classes of learning tasks, such as classification and pattern recognition. The performance and power consumption of neuromorphic computing depends…

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Photonic technologies offer great prospects for novel ultrafast, energy-efficient and hardware-friendly neuromorphic (brain-like) computing platforms. Moreover, neuromorphic photonic approaches based upon ubiquitous, technology-mature and…

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The parallelism of optics and the miniaturization of optical components using nanophotonic structures, such as metasurfaces present a compelling alternative to electronic implementations of convolutional neural networks. The lack of a…

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Deep neural networks have been demonstrated impressive results in various cognitive tasks such as object detection and image classification. In order to execute large networks, Von Neumann computers store the large number of weight…

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Artificial neural networks (ANNs) represent a fundamentally connectionnist and distributed approach to computing, and as such they differ from classical computers that utilize the von Neumann architecture. This has revived research interest…

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The new era of artificial intelligence demands large-scale ultrafast hardware for machine learning. Optical artificial neural networks process classical and quantum information at the speed of light, and are compatible with silicon…

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The escalating energy demands and parallel-processing bottlenecks of electronic neural networks underscore the need for alternative computing paradigms. Optical neural networks, capitalizing on the inherent parallelism and speed of light…

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