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Photonic extreme learning machines (PELMs) replace a digitally trained hidden layer by a fixed optical transformation, allowing a high dimensional feature map to be generated by physical propagation while only the final readout is learned.…

The increasing complexity of neural networks and the energy consumption associated with training and inference create a need for alternative neuromorphic approaches, e.g. using optics. Current proposals and implementations rely on physical…

Optics · Physics 2023-08-31 Clara C. Wanjura , Florian Marquardt

A critical factor in adopting machine learning for time-sensitive financial tasks is computational speed, including model training and inference. This paper demonstrates that a broad class of such problems, especially those previously…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-05-27 Liexin Cheng , Xue Cheng , Shuaiqiang Liu

Machine learning technologies have found fertile ground in optics due to its promising features based on speed and parallelism. Feed-forward neural networks are one of the most widely used machine learning algorithms due to their simplicity…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Stefano Biasi , Riccardo Franchi , Lorenzo Cerini , Lorenzo Pavesi

Machine learning and quantum computing are two technologies each with the potential for altering how computation is performed to address previously untenable problems. Kernel methods for machine learning are ubiquitous for pattern…

With the emergence of new photonic and plasmonic materials with optimized properties as well as advanced nanofabrication techniques, nanophotonic devices are now capable of providing solutions to global challenges in energy conversion,…

Recent success in deep neural networks has generated strong interest in hardware accelerators to improve speed and energy consumption. This paper presents a new type of photonic accelerator based on coherent detection that is scalable to…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Ryan Hamerly , Liane Bernstein , Alexander Sludds , Marin Soljačić , Dirk Englund

This paper introduces a new method of data-driven microscope design for virtual fluorescence microscopy. Our results show that by including a model of illumination within the first layers of a deep convolutional neural network, it is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-23 Colin L. Cooke , Fanjie Kong , Amey Chaware , Kevin C. Zhou , Kanghyun Kim , Rong Xu , D. Michael Ando , Samuel J. Yang , Pavan Chandra Konda , Roarke Horstmeyer

Learning in uncertain, noisy, or adversarial environments is a challenging task for deep neural networks (DNNs). We propose a new theoretically grounded and efficient approach for robust learning that builds upon Bayesian estimation and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Giuseppina Carannante , Dimah Dera , Ghulam Rasool , Nidhal C. Bouaynaya , Lyudmila Mihaylova

Foundation models, exemplified by GPT technology, are discovering new horizons in artificial intelligence by executing tasks beyond their designers' expectations. While the present generation provides fundamental advances in understanding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Maksim Makarenko , Qizhou Wang , Arturo Burguete-Lopez , Silvio Giancola , Bernard Ghanem , Luca Passone , Andrea Fratalocchi

Extreme Learning Machines (ELMs) have become a popular tool in the field of Artificial Intelligence due to their very high training speed and generalization capabilities. Another advantage is that they have a single hyper-parameter that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Nicolás Nieto , Francisco Ibarrola , Victoria Peterson , Hugo Rufiner , Ruben Spies

Optical neural networks are emerging as powerful machine learning and information processing tools because of their potential advantages in speed and energy efficiency. The training methods of these physical models, however, remain…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-11 Xudong Lv , Yuxiang Sun , Shuo Wang , Nanxing Chen , Jun Guan , Jingtian Hu

We present our new experimental and theoretical framework which combines a broadband superluminescent diode (SLED/SLD) with fast learning algorithms to provide speed and accuracy improvements for the optimization of 1D optical dipole…

We study continuous-variable photonic quantum extreme learning machines as fast, low-overhead front-ends for collider data processing. Data is encoded in photonic modes through quadrature displacements and propagated through a fixed-time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-17 Benedikt Maier , Michael Spannowsky , Simon Williams

Since their invention in the 1980s [1], optical tweezers have found a wide range of applications, from biophotonics and mechanobiology to microscopy and optomechanics [2, 3, 4, 5]. Simulations of the motion of microscopic particles held by…

A machine learning model that generalizes well should obtain low errors on unseen test examples. Thus, if we learn an optimal model in training data, it could have better generalization performance in testing tasks. However, learning such a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Penghao Jiang , Xin Ke , ZiFeng Wang , Chunxi Li

Due to their high degree of parallelism, fast processing speeds and low power consumption, analog optical functional elements offer interesting routes for realizing neuro-morphic computer hardware. For instance, convolutional neural…

Neural networks have enabled applications in artificial intelligence through machine learning, and neuromorphic computing. Software implementations of neural networks on conventional computers that have separate memory and processor (and…

Artificial Neural Networks are computational network models inspired by signal processing in the brain. These models have dramatically improved the performance of many learning tasks, including speech and object recognition. However,…

The rapid advancements in machine learning across numerous industries have amplified the demand for extensive matrix-vector multiplication operations, thereby challenging the capacities of traditional von Neumann computing architectures. To…