RecLight: A recurrent neural network accelerator with integrated silicon photonics

F Sunny, M Nikdast, S Pasricha - 2022 IEEE Computer Society …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) are used in applications that learn dependencies in data
sequences, such as speech recognition, human activity recognition, and anomaly detection …

Machine learning accelerators in 2.5 D chiplet platforms with silicon photonics

F Sunny, E Taheri, M Nikdast… - … Design, Automation & …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Domain-specific machine learning (ML) accelerators such as Google's TPU and Apple's
Neural Engine now dominate CPUs and GPUs for energy-efficient ML processing. However …

Photonic binary convolutional neural network based on microring resonator array

R Wang, P Wang, C Lyu, G Luo, J Ma… - IEEE Photonics …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose the photonic architecture based on microring resonator (MRR) arrays for binary
convolutional neural networks (BCNNs) accelerated computing. The MRR crossbar unit is …

Cross-layer design for ai acceleration with non-coherent optical computing

F Sunny, M Nikdast, S Pasricha - … of the Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Emerging AI applications such as ChatGPT, graph convolutional networks, and other deep
neural networks require massive computational resources for training and inference …

Energy-Efficient Machine Learning Acceleration: From Technologies to Circuits and Systems

C Ogbogu, M Abernot, C Delacour… - 2023 IEEE/ACM …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Advanced computing systems have long been enablers for breakthroughs in Machine
Learning (ML) algorithms either through sheer computational power or form-factor …

Accelerating Neural Networks for Large Language Models and Graph Processing with Silicon Photonics

S Afifi, F Sunny, M Nikdast… - 2024 Design, Automation …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence., large language models (LLMs)
and graph processing have emerged as transformative technologies for natural language …

Lightator: An Optical Near-Sensor Accelerator with Compressive Acquisition Enabling Versatile Image Processing

M Morsali, B Reidy, D Najafi, S Tabrizchi… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
This paper proposes a high-performance and energy-efficient optical near-sensor
accelerator for vision applications, called Lightator. Harnessing the promising efficiency …

Education Abstract: Optical Computing for AI Acceleration

S Pasricha - Proceedings of the 2023 International Conference on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Emerging AI applications such as large language models, vision transformers, graph
convolutional networks, and other deep neural networks require massive computational …

A Comparative Analysis of Microrings Based Incoherent Photonic GEMM Accelerators

SS Vatsavai, VSP Karempudi, OA Alo… - … Symposium on Quality …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Several analog photonic architectures based on microring resonators (MRRs) have been
proposed to accelerate general matrix-matrix multiplications (GEMMs) that compose deep …

Silicon Photonic Neural Network Accelerators: Opportunities and Challenges

M Nikdast, S Pasricha, K Chakrabarty - CLEO: Applications and …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
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