arXiv Machine Learning

Photonic convolutional neural network with pre-trained in situ training

arXiv:2604. 02429v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have transformed image processing, but the energy consumption and inference latency of electronic based implementations remain fundamental bottlenecks.

arXiv AI
Jul 23

Opto-ViT-v2: Noise-Resilient On-Chip Fine-Tuning for Photonic Near-Sensor Vision Transformer Accelerators

arXiv:2607. 19421v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Silicon-photonic (SiPh) accelerators have emerged as a promising platform for Vision Transformer (ViT) inference by performing matrix multiplications on microring-resonator (MRR) banks with high throughput and energy efficiency.

By Xuming Chen, Deniz Najafi, Mehrdad Morsali, Chengwei Zhou, Zahra Ghanaatianjobzari, Mahdi Nikdast, Shaahin Angizi, Gourav Datta
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 23

Q-PhotoNAS: Hybrid Quantum Neural Architecture Search Framework on Photonic Devices

arXiv:2605. 22097v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Photonic quantum computing is a promising platform for scalable quantum machine learning, but designing effective hybrid architectures remains challenging under hardware and optimization constraints.

By Farah Elnakhal, Alberto Marchisio, Nouhaila Innan, Gabriel Falcao, Muhammad Shafique
arXiv AI
Jun 9

Optimizing Energy-based Neural Network Training with Coherent Ising Machine

arXiv:2606. 09117v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While Ising machines serve as advanced physical solvers for the Ising model,enabling applications in combinatorial optimization and neural network training,their scalability for large-scale neural networks remains constrained by hardware connectivity limitations and suboptimal training methodologies.

By Chen-Rui Fan, Bo Lu, Zhi-Hong Zhang, Run-Qing Zhang, Jing-Wei Wen, Chuan Wang
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 4

Constrained Co-Design for Photonic Bayesian Neural Networks

arXiv:2608. 02229v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Classical neural networks frequently produce overconfident predictions on ambiguous or out-of-distribution (OOD) data, a liability that grows with each AI system deployed in safety-critical real-world scenarios.

By Hendrik Borras, Xiao Wang, Bernhard Klein, Robin Janssen, Frank Br\"uckerhoff-Pl\"uckelmann, Wolfram Pernice, Holger Fr\"oning