Ising machines as hardware solvers of combinatorial optimization problems

N Mohseni, PL McMahon, T Byrnes - Nature Reviews Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Ising machines are hardware solvers that aim to find the absolute or approximate ground
states of the Ising model. The Ising model is of fundamental computational interest because …

Photonic matrix multiplication lights up photonic accelerator and beyond

H Zhou, J Dong, J Cheng, W Dong, C Huang… - Light: Science & …, 2022 - nature.com
Matrix computation, as a fundamental building block of information processing in science
and technology, contributes most of the computational overheads in modern signal …

Photonics for artificial intelligence and neuromorphic computing

BJ Shastri, AN Tait, T Ferreira de Lima, WHP Pernice… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Research in photonic computing has flourished due to the proliferation of optoelectronic
components on photonic integration platforms. Photonic integrated circuits have enabled …

Power-efficient combinatorial optimization using intrinsic noise in memristor Hopfield neural networks

F Cai, S Kumar, T Van Vaerenbergh, X Sheng… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
To tackle important combinatorial optimization problems, a variety of annealing-inspired
computing accelerators, based on several different technology platforms, have been …

All-optical graph representation learning using integrated diffractive photonic computing units

T Yan, R Yang, Z Zheng, X Lin, H Xiong, Q Dai - Science Advances, 2022 - science.org
Photonic neural networks perform brain-inspired computations using photons instead of
electrons to achieve substantially improved computing performance. However, existing …

The challenges of modern computing and new opportunities for optics

C Li, X Zhang, J Li, T Fang, X Dong - PhotoniX, 2021 - Springer
In recent years, the explosive development of artificial intelligence implementing by artificial
neural networks (ANNs) creates inconceivable demands for computing hardware. However …

Ultrafast dynamic machine vision with spatiotemporal photonic computing

T Zhou, W Wu, J Zhang, S Yu, L Fang - Science Advances, 2023 - science.org
Ultrafast dynamic machine vision in the optical domain can provide unprecedented
perspectives for high-performance computing. However, owing to the limited degrees of …

Theory of neuromorphic computing by waves: machine learning by rogue waves, dispersive shocks, and solitons

G Marcucci, D Pierangeli, C Conti - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
We study artificial neural networks with nonlinear waves as a computing reservoir. We
discuss universality and the conditions to learn a dataset in terms of output channels and …

Phase-binarized spin hall nano-oscillator arrays: Towards spin hall ising machines

A Houshang, M Zahedinejad, S Muralidhar… - Physical Review …, 2022 - APS
Ising machines (IMs) are physical systems designed to find solutions to combinatorial
optimization (CO) problems mapped onto the IM via the coupling strengths between its …

Demonstration of chip-based coupled degenerate optical parametric oscillators for realizing a nanophotonic spin-glass

Y Okawachi, M Yu, JK Jang, X Ji, Y Zhao… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The need for solving optimization problems is prevalent in various physical applications,
including neuroscience, network design, biological systems, socio-economics, and chemical …