The physics of optical computing

PL McMahon - Nature Reviews Physics, 2023 - nature.com
There has been a resurgence of interest in optical computing since the early 2010s, both in
academia and in industry, with much of the excitement centred around special-purpose …

Perceptron: Learning, generalization, model selection, fault tolerance, and role in the deep learning era

KL Du, CS Leung, WH Mow, MNS Swamy - Mathematics, 2022 - mdpi.com
The single-layer perceptron, introduced by Rosenblatt in 1958, is one of the earliest and
simplest neural network models. However, it is incapable of classifying linearly inseparable …

All-analog photoelectronic chip for high-speed vision tasks

Y Chen, M Nazhamaiti, H Xu, Y Meng, T Zhou, G Li… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Photonic computing enables faster and more energy-efficient processing of vision data,,,–.
However, experimental superiority of deployable systems remains a challenge because of …

An optical neural network using less than 1 photon per multiplication

T Wang, SY Ma, LG Wright, T Onodera… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Deep learning has become a widespread tool in both science and industry. However,
continued progress is hampered by the rapid growth in energy costs of ever-larger deep …

Noise-resilient and high-speed deep learning with coherent silicon photonics

G Mourgias-Alexandris, M Moralis-Pegios… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The explosive growth of deep learning applications has triggered a new era in computing
hardware, targeting the efficient deployment of multiply-and-accumulate operations. In this …

[HTML][HTML] Quantum-noise-limited optical neural networks operating at a few quanta per activation

SY Ma, T Wang, J Laydevant, LG Wright… - Research …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
A practical limit to energy efficiency in computation is ultimately from noise, with quantum
noise [1] as the fundamental floor. Analog physical neural networks [2], which hold promise …

Noise-mitigation strategies in physical feedforward neural networks

N Semenova, D Brunner - Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Physical neural networks are promising candidates for next generation artificial intelligence
hardware. In such architectures, neurons and connections are physically realized and do not …

Multiplexing-based control of stochastic resonance

VV Semenov, A Zakharova - Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
We show that multiplexing (Here, the term “multiplexing” means a special network topology
where a one-layer network is connected to another one-layer networks through coupling …

Impact of white noise in artificial neural networks trained for classification: Performance and noise mitigation strategies

N Semenova, D Brunner - Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
In recent years, the hardware implementation of neural networks, leveraging physical
coupling and analog neurons has substantially increased in relevance. Such nonlinear and …

Multiplexing-based control of wavefront propagation: The interplay of inter-layer coupling, asymmetry and noise

VV Semenov, S Jalan, A Zakharova - Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2023 - Elsevier
We show how multiplexing influences propagating fronts in multilayer networks of coupled
bistable oscillators. Using numerical simulation, we investigate both deterministic and noise …