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Joint chance-constrained optimal power flow (JCC-OPF) is a promising tool to manage uncertainties from distributed renewable generation. However, most existing works are based on power flow equations, which require accurate network…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-12 Ge Chen , Hongcai Zhang , Hongxun Hui , Yonghua Song

The explosive growth of computation and energy cost of artificial intelligence has spurred strong interests in new computing modalities as potential alternatives to conventional electronic processors. Photonic processors that execute…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Kaixuan Wei , Xiao Li , Johannes Froech , Praneeth Chakravarthula , James Whitehead , Ethan Tseng , Arka Majumdar , Felix Heide

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,…

Machine Learning (ML) optimization frameworks have gained attention for their ability to accelerate the optimization of large-scale Quadratically Constrained Quadratic Programs (QCQPs) by learning shared problem structures. However,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-08 Zhixiao Xiong , Fangyu Zong , Huigen Ye , Hua Xu

We propose the combination of forward shape derivatives and the use of an iterative inversion scheme for Bayesian optimization to find optimal designs of nanophotonic devices. This approach widens the range of applicability of Bayesian…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-01-12 Xavier Garcia-Santiago , Sven Burger , Carsten Rockstuhl , Philipp-Immanuel Schneider

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) operating in confined, cluttered environments face significant performance degradation due to nonlinear, time-varying unmodeled dynamics-such as ground/ceiling effects and wake recirculation-that are…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-14 Qinxiao Ma , Ruiqian Li , Cheng Wang , Yang Wang

Edge AI systems often operate under stringent energy and volume constraints that demand extreme efficiency under limited battery capacity, with requirements worsening as intelligent capability demands advance. Prior literature suggests that…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Paul Chen , Jeongeun Kim , Wenbo Zhu , Yuanhan Li , Shunyao Huang , Chenjie Weng , Christopher Torng

Photonic computing promises ultrafast and energy-efficient artificial intelligence. However, existing photonic neural networks (PNNs) remain functionally shallow and difficult to scale. Here we establish a theory-guided framework showing…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-25 Yuxin Sun , Chun Gao , Jin Xie , Pan Wang , Zejie Yu , Yiwei Xie , Huan Li , Daoxin Dai

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

As neural networks (NN) are deployed across diverse sectors, their energy demand correspondingly grows. While several prior works have focused on reducing energy consumption during training, the continuous operation of ML-powered systems…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Minghao Yan , Hongyi Wang , Shivaram Venkataraman

Edge intelligence is constrained by the energy and latency costs of shuttling data through electronic memory hierarchies. Optical systems offer a fundamentally different computational regime: once an input wavefront is launched into a…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Prakul Sunil Hiremath

Client heterogeneity poses significant challenges to the performance of Quantum Federated Learning (QFL). To overcome these limitations, we propose a new approach leveraging deep unfolding, which enables clients to autonomously optimize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Shanika Iroshi Nanayakkara , Shiva Raj Pokhrel

Photonic neural networks (PNNs) are fast in-propagation and high bandwidth paradigms that aim to popularize reproducible NN acceleration with higher efficiency and lower cost. However, the training of PNN is known to be challenging, where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Yizhi Wang , Minjia Chen , Chunhui Yao , Jie Ma , Ting Yan , Richard Penty , Qixiang Cheng

Ensembles of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have achieved qualitative predictions but they are computing and memory intensive. Therefore, the demand is growing to make them answer a heavy workload of requests with available computational…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Pierrick Pochelu , Serge G. Petiton , Bruno Conche

In this thesis, we propose to tackle this important issue by designing and realizing a novel nano-optical device based on the use of a photonic crystal (PC) structure to generate an efficient coupling between the external source and a NA.…

Optics · Physics 2023-05-25 Taiping Zhang

Quantum Transfer Learning (QTL) recently gained popularity as a hybrid quantum-classical approach for image classification tasks by efficiently combining the feature extraction capabilities of large Convolutional Neural Networks with the…

We introduce the architecture and timing algorithm to realize a time-bin-encoded quantum photonic neural network (QPNN): a reconfigurable nonlinear photonic circuit inspired by the brain and trained to process quantum information. Unlike…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-26 Ivanna M. Boras Vazquez , Jacob Ewaniuk , Nir Rotenberg

Machine learning and optimization algorithms have been widely applied in the design and optimization for photonic devices. In this article, we briefly review recent progress of this field of research and show some data-driven applications…

Optics · Physics 2020-07-15 Tian Zhang , Qi Liu , Yihang Dan , Shuai Yu , Xu Han , Jian Dai , Kun Xu

Photonic neuromorphic computing offers a promising route to overcoming the limitations of conventional von Neumann architectures by exploiting the high bandwidth, low latency, and massive parallelism of optical systems. However, most…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-20 Isaac Yorke

Based on deep neural networks (DNNs), deep learning has been successfully applied to many problems, but its mechanism is still not well understood -- especially the reason why over-parametrized DNNs can generalize. A recent statistical…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-06-10 Gang Huang , Lai Shun Chan , Hajime Yoshino , Ge Zhang , Yuliang Jin