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The record-breaking achievements of deep neural networks (DNNs) in image classification and detection tasks resulted in a surge of new computer vision applications during the past years. However, their computational complexity is…

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As a result of the increasing demand for deep neural network (DNN)-based services, efforts to develop dedicated hardware accelerators for DNNs are growing rapidly. However,while accelerators with high performance and efficiency on…

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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

The inherent diversity of computation types within the deep neural network (DNN) models often requires a variety of specialized units in hardware processors, which limits computational efficiency, increasing both inference latency and power…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Ruiqi Sun , Siwei Ye , Jie Zhao , Xin He , Jianzhe Lin , Yiran Li , An Zou

Deep neural networks (DNN) have demonstrated effectiveness for various applications such as image processing, video segmentation, and speech recognition. Running state-of-the-art DNNs on current systems mostly relies on either…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Mohsen Imani , Mohammad Samragh , Yeseong Kim , Saransh Gupta , Farinaz Koushanfar , Tajana Rosing

The rapid surge in data generated by Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML) applications demands ultra-fast, scalable, and energy-efficient hardware, as traditional von Neumann architectures face…

The ever-increasing data demand craves advancements in high-speed and energy-efficient computing hardware. Analog optical neural network (ONN) processors have emerged as a promising solution, offering benefits in bandwidth and energy…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-07 Chao Luan , Ronald Davis , Zaijun Chen , Dirk Englund , Ryan Hamerly

Photonics offers a transformative approach to artificial intelligence (AI) and neuromorphic computing by enabling low-latency, high-speed, and energy-efficient computations. However, conventional photonic tensor cores face significant…

Deep neural networks (DNN) consist of layers of neurons interconnected by synaptic weights. A high bit-precision in weights is generally required to guarantee high accuracy in many applications. Minimizing error accumulation between layers…

Photonic computing shows great potential for signal processing and artificial intelligence (AI) acceleration due to its ultra-high speed, low energy consumption, and inherent parallelism. Existing photonic computing research has mainly…

In recent years, deep neural networks (DNN) have demonstrated significant business impact in large scale analysis and classification tasks such as speech recognition, visual object detection, pattern extraction, etc. Training of large DNNs,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-24 Tayfun Gokmen , Yurii Vlasov

Inverse-designed nanophotonic devices offer promising solutions for analog optical computation. High-density photonic integration is critical for scaling such architectures toward more complex computational tasks and large-scale…

Optics · Physics 2025-06-09 Joel Sved , Shijie Song , Liwei Li , George Li , Debin Meng , Xiaoke Yi

Solving partial differential equations (PDEs) numerically often requires huge computing time, energy cost, and hardware resources in practical applications. This has limited their applications in many scenarios (e.g., autonomous systems,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Yequan Zhao , Xian Xiao , Xinling Yu , Ziyue Liu , Zhixiong Chen , Geza Kurczveil , Raymond G. Beausoleil , Zheng Zhang

Accelerating the inference of a trained DNN is a well studied subject. In this paper we switch the focus to the training of DNNs. The training phase is compute intensive, demands complicated data communication, and contains multiple levels…

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Photonic integrated circuits are emerging as a promising platform for accelerating matrix multiplications in deep learning, leveraging the inherent parallel nature of light. Although various schemes have been proposed and demonstrated to…

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The rapid growth in computing demands, particularly driven by artificial intelligence applications, has begun to exceed the capabilities of traditional electronic hardware. Optical computing offers a promising alternative due to its…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Shupeng Ning , Hanqing Zhu , Chenghao Feng , Jiaqi Gu , David Z. Pan , Ray T. Chen

Photonic computing chips have made significant progress in accelerating linear computations, but nonlinear computations are usually implemented in the digital domain, which introduces additional system latency and power consumption, and…

Neural radiance field (NeRF) has shown remarkable performance in generating photo-realistic novel views. Among recent NeRF related research, the approaches that involve the utilization of explicit structures like grids to manage features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Yongjae Lee , Li Yang , Deliang Fan

Nowadays, the rapid growth of Deep Neural Network (DNN) architectures has established them as the defacto approach for providing advanced Machine Learning tasks with excellent accuracy. Targeting low-power DNN computing, this paper examines…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Vasileios Leon , Georgios Makris , Sotirios Xydis , Kiamal Pekmestzi , Dimitrios Soudris

As deep neural networks (DNNs) revolutionize machine learning, energy consumption and throughput are emerging as fundamental limitations of CMOS electronics. This has motivated a search for new hardware architectures optimized for…