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The conjugation of multiple spatial light modulators (SLMs) enables the construction of optical diffractive neural networks (DNNs). To accelerate training, which is limited by the low refresh rate of SLMs, spatial multiplexing of the input…

Despite their appealing flexibility, deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable against adversarial examples. Various adversarial defense strategies have been proposed to resolve this problem, but they typically demonstrate restricted…

Having the potential for high speed, high throughput, and low energy cost, optical neural networks (ONNs) have emerged as a promising candidate for accelerating deep learning tasks. In conventional ONNs, light amplitudes are modulated at…

Hybrid opto-electronic neural networks combine optical front-ends with electronic back-ends to perform vision tasks, but joint end-to-end (E2E) optimization of optical and electronic components is computationally expensive due to large…

Datacenters are increasingly becoming heterogeneous, and are starting to include specialized hardware for networking, video processing, and especially deep learning. To leverage the heterogeneous compute capability of modern datacenters, we…

To speedup Deep Neural Networks (DNN) accelerator design and enable effective implementation, we propose HybridDNN, a framework for building high-performance hybrid DNN accelerators and delivering FPGA-based hardware implementations. Novel…

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) is vital in various AI applications. DRL algorithms comprise diverse compute kernels, which may not be simultaneously optimized using a homogeneous architecture. However, even with available heterogeneous…

Optical neural networks offer a route to low-latency and energy-efficient inference by encoding computation in light propagation. However, most existing implementations rely on planar photonic circuits or discretely spaced diffractive…

Automated feature extraction capability and significant performance of Deep Neural Networks (DNN) make them suitable for Internet of Things (IoT) applications. However, deploying DNN on edge devices becomes prohibitive due to the colossal…

In recent years, the use of artificial intelligence on resource-constrained IoT devices has grown significantly. However, existing approaches to DNN partitioning and offloading across the edge-cloud continuum typically rely on static…

The design of specialized architectures for accelerating the inference procedure of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) is a booming area of research nowadays. First-generation rigid proposals have been rapidly replaced by more advanced flexible…

Maxwell's equations govern light propagation and its interaction with matter. Therefore, the solution of Maxwell's equations using computational electromagnetic simulations plays a critical role in understanding light-matter interaction and…

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have shown great success in many machine learning tasks. Their training is challenging since the loss surface of the network architecture is generally non-convex, or even non-smooth. How and under what…

The upcoming sixth Generation (6G) of wireless networks envisions ultra-low latency and energy efficient Edge Inference (EI) for diverse Internet of Things (IoT) applications. However, traditional digital hardware for machine learning is…

Current state-of-the-art Neural Architecture Search (NAS) methods neither efficiently scale to multiple hardware platforms, nor handle diverse architectural search-spaces. To remedy this, we present DONNA (Distilling Optimal Neural Network…

We present PINNACLE, an open-source computational framework for physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) that integrates modern training strategies, multi-GPU acceleration, and hybrid quantum-classical architectures within a unified modular…

This paper introduces a novel algorithmic framework for a deep neural network (DNN), which in a mathematically rigorous manner, allows us to incorporate history (or memory) into the network -- it ensures all layers are connected to one…

Compiler frameworks are crucial for the widespread use of FPGA-based deep learning accelerators. They allow researchers and developers, who are not familiar with hardware engineering, to harness the performance attained by domain-specific…

We propose Fluid Logic, a paradigm in which modal logical reasoning, temporal, epistemic, doxastic, deontic, is lifted from discrete Kripke structures to continuous manifolds via Neural Stochastic Differential Equations (Neural SDEs). Each…

Photonic neural networks perform brain-inspired computations using photons instead of electrons that can achieve substantially improved computing performance. However, existing architectures can only handle data with regular structures,…