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In-memory computing with resistive crossbar arrays has been suggested to accelerate deep-learning workloads in highly efficient manner. To unleash the full potential of in-memory computing, it is desirable to accelerate the training as well…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Malte J. Rasch , Fabio Carta , Omebayode Fagbohungbe , Tayfun Gokmen

Integrated photonic neural networks (PNNs) have demonstrated significant potential to complement the digital electronic counterparts [1-3]. Nevertheless, robust and repeatable performance of scalable integrated PNNs is directly tied to the…

Optics · Physics 2025-06-18 Farshid Ashtiani , Mohamad Hossein Idjadi , Kwangwoong Kim

Optical neural networks (ONNs) have demonstrated record-breaking potential in high-performance neuromorphic computing due to their ultra-high execution speed and low energy consumption. However, current learning protocols fail to provide…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Jiaqi Gu , Chenghao Feng , Zheng Zhao , Zhoufeng Ying , Ray T. Chen , David Z. Pan

Photonic processors have emerged as an attractive platform for fast and energy-efficient matrix-vector multiplication. However, they are susceptible to error due to their analog nature. Here, we present an error-correction technique that…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-23 Adam Carstensen , Babak Vosoughi Lahijani

Training of convolutional neural networks (CNNs)on embedded platforms to support on-device learning is earning vital importance in recent days. Designing flexible training hard-ware is much more challenging than inference hardware, due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Shreyas Kolala Venkataramanaiah , Yufei Ma , Shihui Yin , Eriko Nurvithadhi , Aravind Dasu , Yu Cao , Jae-sun Seo

Analog in-memory computing is an emerging paradigm designed to efficiently accelerate deep neural network workloads. Recent advancements have focused on either inference or training acceleration. However, a unified analog in-memory…

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have received extensive academic attention due to the unique properties of low power consumption and high-speed computing on neuromorphic chips. Among various training methods of SNNs, ANN-SNN conversion has…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Zecheng Hao , Tong Bu , Jianhao Ding , Tiejun Huang , Zhaofei Yu

Mixed-signal analog/digital circuits emulate spiking neurons and synapses with extremely high energy efficiency, an approach known as "neuromorphic engineering". However, analog circuits are sensitive to process-induced variation among…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Julian Büchel , Dmitrii Zendrikov , Sergio Solinas , Giacomo Indiveri , Dylan R. Muir

Spiking Neural Network (SNN), as a brain-inspired and energy-efficient network, is currently facing the pivotal challenge of exploring a suitable and efficient learning framework. The predominant training methodologies, namely…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Zecheng Hao , Qichao Ma , Kang Chen , Yi Zhang , Zhaofei Yu , Tiejun Huang

The scaling hypothesis motivates the expansion of models past trillions of parameters as a path towards better performance. Recent significant developments, such as GPT-3, have been driven by this conjecture. However, as models scale-up,…

Hardware failures are a growing challenge for machine learning accelerators, many of which are based on systolic arrays. When a permanent hardware failure occurs in a systolic array, existing solutions include localizing and isolating the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Youssef A. Ait Alama , Sampada Sakpal , Ke Wang , Razvan Bunescu , Avinash Karanth , Ahmed Louri

Silicon-based analog neural networks physically embody the ideal neural network model in an approximate way. We show that by retraining the neural network using a physics-informed hardware-aware model one can fully recover the inference…

We demonstrate, for the first time, experimental over-the-fiber training of transmitter neural networks (NNs) using reinforcement learning. Optical back-to-back training of a novel NN-based digital predistorter outperforms arcsine-based…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-10 Jinxiang Song , Zonglong He , Christian Häger , Magnus Karlsson , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Henk Wymeersch , Jochen Schröder

Transfer learning entails taking an artificial neural network (ANN) that is trained on a source dataset and adapting it to a new target dataset. While this has been shown to be quite powerful, its use has generally been restricted by…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-05 AbdElRahman ElSaid , Joshua Karns , Alexander Ororbia , Daniel Krutz , Zimeng Lyu , Travis Desell

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have attracted great attention due to their distinctive characteristics of low power consumption and temporal information processing. ANN-SNN conversion, as the most commonly used training method for applying…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Zecheng Hao , Jianhao Ding , Tong Bu , Tiejun Huang , Zhaofei Yu

This paper presents a machine learning-based approach to correct inference errors caused by stuck-at faults in fully analog ReRAM-based neuromorphic circuits. Using a Design-Technology Co-Optimization (DTCO) simulation framework, we model…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Vedant Sawal , Hiu Yung Wong

The demand for high speed data transmission has increased rapidly, leading to advanced optical communication techniques. In the past few years, multiple equalizers based on neural network (NN) have been proposed to recover signal from…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-26 Qingyi Zhou , Fan Zhang , Chuanchuan Yang

Machine learning algorithms have made significant advances in many applications. However, their hardware implementation on the state-of-the-art platforms still faces several challenges and are limited by various factors, such as memory…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Xiaocong Du , Gokul Krishnan , Abinash Mohanty , Zheng Li , Gouranga Charan , Yu Cao

Neural networks (NNs) are capable of learning complex patterns and relationships in data to make predictions with high accuracy, making them useful for various tasks. However, NNs are both computation-intensive and memory-intensive methods,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Soyed Tuhin Ahmed , Mehdi B. Tahoori

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been widely adopted due to their strong performance. However, GNN training often relies on expensive, high-performance computing platforms, limiting accessibility for many tasks. Profiling of representative…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Tong Qiao , Ao Zhou , Yingjie Qi , Yiou Wang , Han Wan , Jianlei Yang , Chunming Hu