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Hybrid Optical Neural Networks (ONNs, typically consisting of an optical frontend and a digital backend) offer an energy-efficient alternative to fully digital deep networks for real-time, power-constrained systems. However, their adoption…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Jinlin Xiang , Minho Choi , Yubo Zhang , Zhihao Zhou , Arka Majumdar , Eli Shlizerman

The optical neural network (ONN) is a promising hardware platform for next-generation neurocomputing due to its high parallelism, low latency, and low energy consumption. Previous ONN architectures are mainly designed for general matrix…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Chenghao Feng , Jiaqi Gu , Hanqing Zhu , Zhoufeng Ying , Zheng Zhao , David Z. Pan , Ray T. Chen

Artificial neural networks (ANNs), have become ubiquitous and revolutionized many applications ranging from computer vision to medical diagnoses. However, they offer a fundamentally connectionist and distributed approach to computing, in…

We are proposing fully parallel and maximally distributed hardware realization of a generic neuro-computing system. More specifically, the proposal relates to the wireless sensor networks technology to serve as a massively parallel and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Gursel Serpen

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) represent the most prominent biologically inspired computing model for neuromorphic computing (NC) architectures. However, due to the non-differentiable nature of spiking neuronal functions, the standard error…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Jibin Wu , Yansong Chua , Malu Zhang , Guoqi Li , Haizhou Li , Kay Chen Tan

Compared with electrical neural networks, optical neural networks (ONNs) have the potentials to break the limit of the bandwidth and reduce the consumption of energy, and therefore draw much attention in recent years. By far, several types…

Optics · Physics 2024-02-02 Yifan Sun , Qian Li , Ling-Jun Kong , Xiangdong Zhang

Discriminative learning based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) aims to perform image restoration by learning from training examples of noisy-clean image pairs. It has become the go-to methodology for tackling image restoration and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Junaid Malik , Serkan Kiranyaz , Moncef Gabbouj

In this work, we propose to use various artificial neural network (ANN) structures for modeling and compensation of intra- and inter-subcarrier fiber nonlinear interference in digital subcarrier multiplexing (DSCM) optical transmission…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Ali Bakhshali , Hossein Najafi , Behnam Behinaein Hamgini , Zhuhong Zhang

Optical neural network (ONN) is emerging as an attractive proposal for machine-learning applications, enabling high-speed computation with low-energy consumption. However, there are several challenges in applying ONN for industrial…

Optics · Physics 2019-05-21 Xiao-Ming Zhang , Man-Hong Yung

Diffractive Neural Networks (DNNs) leverage the power of light to enhance computational performance in machine learning, offering a pathway to high-speed, low-energy, and large-scale neural information processing. However, most existing DNN…

Optics · Physics 2024-11-21 Sahar Behroozinia , Qing Gu

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

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…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Anas Skalli , Mirko Goldmann , Nasibeh Haghighi , Stephan Reitzenstein , James A. Lott , Daniel Brunner

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

Mixed-signal artificial neural networks (ANNs) that employ analog matrix-multiplication accelerators can achieve higher speed and improved power efficiency. Though analog computing is known to be susceptible to noise and device…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-01 Joseph Ulseth , Zheyuan Zhu , Guifang Li , Shuo Pang

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…

Self-Organized Operational Neural Networks (Self-ONNs) have recently been proposed as new-generation neural network models with nonlinear learning units, i.e., the generative neurons that yield an elegant level of diversity; however, like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Serkan Kiranyaz , Junaid Malik , Mehmet Yamac , Mert Duman , Ilke Adalioglu , Esin Guldogan , Turker Ince , Moncef Gabbouj

All-optical diffractive neural networks (DNNs) offer a promising alternative to electronics-based neural network processing due to their low latency, high throughput, and inherent spatial parallelism. However, the lack of reconfigurability…

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…

Optical Diffraction Neural Networks (DNNs), a subset of Optical Neural Networks (ONNs), show promise in mirroring the prowess of electronic networks. This study introduces the Hybrid Diffraction Neural Network (HDNN), a novel architecture…

Optical neural networks (ONNs) have been developed to enhance processing speed and energy efficiency in machine learning by leveraging optical devices for nonlinear activation and establishing connections among neurons. In this work, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-11 Chuanzhou Zhu , Tianyu Wang , Peter L. McMahon , Daniel Soh