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Deep neural networks with applications from computer vision and image processing to medical diagnosis are commonly implemented using clock-based processors, where computation speed is limited by the clock frequency and the memory access…

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…

In this work, we present numerical results concerning an integrated photonic non-linear activation function that relies on a power independent, non-linear phase to amplitude conversion in a passive optical resonator. The underlying…

A low-complexity model for signal quality prediction in a nonlinear fiber-optical network is developed. The model, which builds on the Gaussian noise model, takes into account the signal degradation caused by a combination of chromatic…

Networks of nonlinear resonators offer a promising platform for analog computing and the emulation of complex systems. However, realizing such networks remains challenging, as it requires resonators with high quality factors, individual…

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…

Spiking neural networks are known to be superior over artificial neural networks for their computational power efficiency and noise robustness. The benefits of spiking coupled with the high-bandwidth and low-latency of photonics can enable…

Driven by machine-learning tasks neural networks have demonstrated useful capabilities as nonlinear hypothesis classifiers. The underlying technologies performing the dot product multiplication, the summation, and the nonlinear thresholding…

Predicting physical response of an artificially structured material is of particular interest for scientific and engineering applications. Here we use deep learning to predict optical response of artificially engineered nanophotonic…

Machine learning techniques have proven very efficient in assorted classification tasks. Nevertheless, processing time-dependent high-speed signals can turn into an extremely challenging task, especially when these signals have been…

As deep learning applications continue to deploy increasingly large artificial neural networks, the associated high energy demands are creating a need for alternative neuromorphic approaches. Optics and photonics are particularly compelling…

Spiking neurons and neural networks constitute a fundamental building block for brain-inspired computing, which is posed to benefit significantly from photonic hardware implementations. In this work, we experimentally investigate an…

Optical approaches have made great strides towards the goal of high-speed, energy-efficient computing necessary for modern deep learning and AI applications. Read-in and read-out of data, however, limit the overall performance of existing…

Communication through optical fibres experiences limitations due to chromatic dispersion and nonlinear Kerr effects that degrade the signal. Mitigating these impairments is typically done using complex digital signal processing algorithms.…

Neuromorphic photonics that aims to process and store information simultaneously like human brains has emerged as a promising alternative for the next generation intelligent computing systems. The implementation of hardware emulating the…

Neuron pruning is an efficient method to compress the network into a slimmer one for reducing the computational cost and storage overhead. Most of state-of-the-art results are obtained in a layer-by-layer optimization mode. It discards the…

The ability to process time-series at low energy cost is critical for many applications. Recurrent neural network, which can perform such tasks, are computationally expensive when implementing in software on conventional computers. Here we…

Compared to electronic accelerators, integrated silicon-photonic neural networks (SP-NNs) promise higher speed and energy efficiency for emerging artificial-intelligence applications. However, a hitherto overlooked problem in SP-NNs is that…

Optical super-oscillation enables far-field super-resolution imaging beyond diffraction limits. However, the existing super-oscillatory lens for the spatial super-resolution imaging system still confronts critical limitations in performance…

We describe how hierarchical concepts can be represented in three types of layered neural networks. The aim is to support recognition of the concepts when partial information about the concepts is presented, and also when some of the…