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Diffractive deep neural network (DNNet) is a novel machine learning framework on the modulation of optical transmission. Diffractive network would get predictions at the speed of light. It's pure passive architecture, no additional power…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Yingshi Chen , Jinfeng Zhu

Deep learning, as a highly efficient method for metasurface inverse design, commonly use simulation data to train deep neural networks (DNNs) that can map desired functionalities to proper metasurface designs. However, the assumptions and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-07 Jingxin Zhang , Jiawei Xi , Peixing Li , Ray C. C. Cheung , Alex M. H. Wong , Jensen Li

The rapid progress in 6G communication and high-bandwidth radar has driven an unprecedented surge in the spatial density of signal sources, resulting in an increasingly congested electromagnetic (EM) environment. When resolving closely…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-05-20 Sheng Gao , Songtao Yang , Haiou Zhang , Yuan Shen , Xing Lin

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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-26 Tiankuang Zhou , Xing Lin , Jiamin Wu , Yitong Chen , Hao Xie , Yipeng Li , Jintao Fan , Huaqiang Wu , Lu Fang , Qionghai Dai

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…

A tandem deep neural network approach is presented for the inverse design of reactively loaded metasurfaces with prescribed far-field radiation characteristics. The proposed approach integrates a deep neural network (DNN) with a…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Malik Almunif , John Le , Anthony Grbic

Optical diffractive neural networks have triggered extensive research with their low power consumption and high speed in image processing. In this work, we propose a reconfigurable digital all-optical diffractive neural network (R-ODNN)…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Chu Wu , Jingyu Zhao , Qiaomu Hu , Rui Zeng , Minming Zhang

While Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) push the state-of-the-art in many machine learning applications, they often require millions of expensive floating-point operations for each input classification. This computation overhead limits the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-05-12 Hokchhay Tann , Soheil Hashemi , Iris Bahar , Sherief Reda

This paper addresses the topic of sparsifying deep neural networks (DNN's). While DNN's are powerful models that achieve state-of-the-art performance on a large number of tasks, the large number of model parameters poses serious storage and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-07 Igor Fedorov , Bhaskar D. Rao

As an optical processor, a Diffractive Deep Neural Network (D2NN) utilizes engineered diffractive surfaces designed through machine learning to perform all-optical information processing, completing its tasks at the speed of light…

Optics · Physics 2024-01-22 Xilin Yang , Md Sadman Sakib Rahman , Bijie Bai , Jingxi Li , Aydogan Ozcan

Transfer learning has gained significant attention in recent deep learning research due to its ability to accelerate convergence and enhance performance on new tasks. However, its success is often contingent on the similarity between source…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Bedionita Soro , Bruno Andreis , Hayeon Lee , Wonyong Jeong , Song Chong , Frank Hutter , Sung Ju Hwang

Compared to classical deep neural networks its binarized versions can be useful for applications on resource-limited devices due to their reduction in memory consumption and computational demands. In this work we study deep neural networks…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-26 Jannis Kurtz , Bubacarr Bah

The recent success of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) has drastically improved the state of the art for many application domains. While achieving high accuracy performance, deploying state-of-the-art DNNs is a challenge since they typically…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-01-24 Hokchhay Tann , Soheil Hashemi , Sherief Reda

We propose the inverse design of ultracompact, broadband focusing spectrometers based on adaptive deep diffractive neural networks (a-D$^2$NNs). Specifically, we introduce and characterize two-layer diffractive devices with engineered…

Optics · Physics 2022-12-14 Yilin Zhu , Yuyao Chen , Luca Dal Negro

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are computationally and memory intensive, which makes their hardware implementation a challenging task especially for resource constrained devices such as IoT nodes. To address this challenge, this paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Mohammed F. Tolba , Huruy Tekle Tesfai , Hani Saleh , Baker Mohammad , Mahmoud Al-Qutayri

We propose a diffractive neural network with strong robustness based on Weight Noise Injection training, which achieves accurate and fast optical-based classification while diffraction layers have a certain amount of surface shape error. To…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-23 Jiashuo Shi

We introduce the Differentiable Weightless Neural Network (DWN), a model based on interconnected lookup tables. Training of DWNs is enabled by a novel Extended Finite Difference technique for approximate differentiation of binary values. We…

Beyond the scope of conventional metasurface which necessitates plenty of computational resources and time, an inverse design approach using machine learning algorithms promises an effective way for metasurfaces design. In this paper,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-27 Fardin Ghorbani , Sina Beyraghi , Javad Shabanpour , Homayoon Oraizi , Hossein Soleimani , Mohammad Soleimani

A wide range of practically important problems is nowadays efficiently solved using artificial neural networks. This gave momentum to intensive development of their optical implementations, among which, the so-called diffractive neural…

Optimal transmission switching (OTS) improves optimal power flow (OPF) by selectively opening transmission lines, but its mixed-integer formulation increases computational complexity, especially on large grids. To deal with this, we propose…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-24 Minsoo Kim , Jip Kim