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An emerging generative artificial intelligence (AI) based on neural networks starts to grow in popularity with a revolutionizing capability of creating new and original content. As giant generative models with millions to billions of…
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Address-Event-Representation (AER) is a spike-routing protocol that allows the scaling of neuromorphic and spiking neural network (SNN) architectures to a size that is comparable to that of digital neural network architectures. However, in…
Spatial frequency analysis and transforms serve a central role in most engineered image and video lossy codecs, but are rarely employed in neural network (NN)-based approaches. We propose a novel NN-based image coding framework that…
In this paper, we introduce a new nonlinear optical channel equalizer based on Transformers. By leveraging parallel computation and attending directly to the memory across a sequence of symbols, we show that Transformers can be used…
Neural networks find widespread use in scientific and technological applications, yet their implementations in conventional computers have encountered bottlenecks due to ever-expanding computational needs. Photonic neuromorphic hardware,…
Modern-day computers use electrical signaling for processing and storing data which is bandwidth limited and power-hungry. These limitations are bypassed in the field of communications, where optical signaling is the norm. To exploit…
Optical information processing and computing can potentially offer enhanced performance, scalability and energy efficiency. However, achieving nonlinearity-a critical component of computation-remains challenging in the optical domain. Here…
Adapting to unforeseen novelties in open-world environments remains a major challenge for autonomous systems. While hybrid planning and reinforcement learning (RL) approaches show promise, they often suffer from sample inefficiency, slow…
Deep learning advancements have revolutionized scalable classification in many domains including computer vision. However, when it comes to wearable-based classification and domain adaptation, existing computer vision-based deep learning…
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…
Optical imaging is commonly used for both scientific and technological applications across industry and academia. In image sensing, a measurement, such as of an object's position, is performed by computational analysis of a digitized image.…
This paper investigates the problem of sampling and reconstructing bandpass signals using time encoding machine(TEM). It is shown that the sampling in principle is equivalent to periodic non-uniform sampling (PNS). Then the TEM parameters…
Ultra-thin multimode optical fiber imaging promises next-generation medical endoscopes reaching high image resolution for deep tissues. However, current technology suffers from severe optical distortion, as the fiber's calibration is…
Application-specific optical processors have been considered disruptive technologies for modern computing that can fundamentally accelerate the development of artificial intelligence (AI) by offering substantially improved computing…
High-speed machine vision is increasing its importance in both scientific and technological applications. Neuro-inspired photonic computing is a promising approach to speed-up machine vision processing with ultralow latency. However, the…
Programming recurrent spiking neural networks (RSNNs) to robustly perform multi-timescale computation remains a difficult challenge. To address this, we describe a single-shot weight learning scheme to embed robust multi-timescale dynamics…
The ever-increasing demand for processing data with larger machine learning models requires more efficient hardware solutions due to limitations such as power dissipation and scalability. Optics is a promising contender for providing lower…
Machine learning for tabular data remains constrained by poor schema generalization, a challenge rooted in the lack of semantic understanding of structured variables. This challenge is particularly acute in domains like clinical medicine,…
Implementing optical-based memory and utilizing it for computation on the nanoscale remains an attractive but still a challenging task. While significant progress was achieved in nanophotonics, allowing to explore nonlinear optical effects…