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Models of dense prediction based on traditional Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) require a lot of energy, especially for image restoration tasks. Currently, neural networks based on the SNN (Spiking Neural Network) framework are beginning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Xin Su , Chen Wu , Zhuoran Zheng

The brain, as the source of inspiration for Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), is based on a sparse structure. This sparse structure helps the brain to consume less energy, learn easier and generalize patterns better than any other ANN. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Seyed Majid Naji , Azra Abtahi , Farokh Marvasti

To satisfy the growing throughput demand of data-intensive applications, the performance of optical communication systems increased dramatically in recent years. With higher throughput, more advanced equalizers are crucial, to compensate…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Jonas Ney , Christoph Füllner , Vincent Lauinger , Laurent Schmalen , Sebastian Randel , Norbert Wehn

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have shown advantages in computation and energy efficiency over traditional artificial neural networks (ANNs) thanks to their event-driven representations. SNNs also replace weight multiplications in ANNs with…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Yangfan Hu , Qian Zheng , Xudong Jiang , Gang Pan

Photonic neural networks have been considered as the promising candidates for next-generation neuromorphic computation, aiming to break both the power consumption wall and processing speed boundary of state-to-date digital computing…

Deep learning has rapidly become a widespread tool in both scientific and commercial endeavors. Milestones of deep learning exceeding human performance have been achieved for a growing number of tasks over the past several years, across…

The approximation capability of ANNs and their RNN instantiations, is strongly correlated with the number of parameters packed into these networks. However, the complexity barrier for human understanding, is arguably related to the number…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Julian Lemmel , Radu Grosu

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…

The rapid scaling of deep neural networks comes at the cost of unsustainable power consumption. While optical neural networks offer an alternative, their capabilities remain constrained by the lack of efficient optical nonlinearities. To…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-06 Qingyi Zhou , Jungmin Kim , Yutian Tao , Guoming Huang , Ming Zhou , Zewei Shao , Zongfu Yu

In recent years, several successful applications of the Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) have emerged in nuclear physics and high-energy physics, as well as in biology, chemistry, meteorology, and other fields of science. A major goal of…

The explosive growth of computation and energy cost of artificial intelligence has spurred strong interests in new computing modalities as potential alternatives to conventional electronic processors. Photonic processors that execute…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Kaixuan Wei , Xiao Li , Johannes Froech , Praneeth Chakravarthula , James Whitehead , Ethan Tseng , Arka Majumdar , Felix Heide

We introduce an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) quantization methodology for platforms without wide accumulation registers. This enables fixed-point model deployment on embedded compute platforms that are not specifically designed for large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Barry de Bruin , Zoran Zivkovic , Henk Corporaal

Photonic brain-inspired platforms are emerging as novel analog computing devices, enabling fast and energy-efficient operations for machine learning. These artificial neural networks generally require tailored optical elements, such as…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Davide Pierangeli , Giulia Marcucci , Claudio Conti

Due to their intrinsic capabilities on parallel signal processing, optical neural networks (ONNs) have attracted extensive interests recently as a potential alternative to electronic artificial neural networks (ANNs) with reduced power…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-05 Yi-Feng Liu , Rui-Yao Ren , Dai-Bao Hou , Hai-Zhong Weng , Bo-Wen Wang , Ke-Jie Huang , Xing Lin , Feng Liu , Chen-Hui Li , Chao-Yuan Jin

An emerging generative artificial intelligence (AI) based on neural networks starts to grow in popularity with a revolutionizing capability of creating new and original content. As giant generative models with millions to billions of…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Shuang Zheng , Jiawei Zhang , Weifeng Zhang

Optical implementation of artificial neural networks has been attracting great attention due to its potential in parallel computation at speed of light. Although all-optical deep neural networks (AODNNs) with a few neurons have been…

Optics · Physics 2021-05-26 Ying Zuo , Zhao Yujun , You-Chiuan Chen , Shengwang Du , Junwei Liu

In this paper we introduce PkANN, a freely available software package for interpolating the non-linear matter power spectrum, constructed using Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs). Previously, using Halofit to calculate matter power spectrum,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Shankar Agarwal , Filipe B. Abdalla , Hume A. Feldman , Ofer Lahav , Shaun A. Thomas

Herein, we present a new data-driven multiscale framework called FE${}^\text{ANN}$ which is based on two main keystones: the usage of physics-constrained artificial neural networks (ANNs) as macroscopic surrogate models and an autonomous…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Karl A. Kalina , Lennart Linden , Jörg Brummund , Markus Kästner

This study integrates a data-driven model for estimating the unfrozen water content into the thermo-hydraulic coupling simulation of frozen soils. An artificial neural network (ANN) was employed to develop this data-driven model using a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-08-05 Mingpeng Liu , Peizhi Zhuang , Raul Fuentes

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