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.
By Saurabh Ranjan, Sonika Thakral, Amit Sehgal
arXiv:2608. 17344v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Neural network surrogates are an emerging alternative to traditional electromagnetic wave simulators like finite-difference time-domain (FDTD); their goal is to replace rigorous physical simulations with pre-trained neural networks that solve wave-scattering forward and inverse problems orders of magnitude faster.
By Charles Dove, Laura Waller
arXiv:2607. 10295v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We demonstrate that AI-driven program synthesis can autonomously discover fundamental strategies for decomposing unitary matrices in photonic networks.
By Yifei Zhang, Dong Chen, Fan Wang, Wenrui Zhang, Yan Chen, Dingding Han, Jianmin Yuan, Xiangjin Kong, Yu-Gang Ma
Photonic quantum machine learning offers a route to trainable physical representations built from phase, interference and measurement. However, its role in scientific machine learning remains largely unexplored.
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:2606. 18713v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Photonic quantum machine learning offers a route to trainable physical representations built from phase, interference and measurement.
By Jiale Linghu, Hao Dong, Yangshuai Wang
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
arXiv:2601. 22300v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We propose a deep photonic neuromorphic network (PNN) architecture based on phase-change material (PCM) synapses and local optical feedback for online, unsupervised Hebbian learning.
By Xi Li, Disha Biswas, Peng Zhou, Wesley H. Brigner, Anna Capuano, Joseph S. Friedman, Qing Gu
arXiv:2602. 07518v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) shift neural computation from linear layers to learnable nonlinear edge functions, but implementing these nonlinearities efficiently in hardware remains an open challenge.
By Manuel Escudero, Mohamadreza Zolfagharinejad, Sjoerd van den Belt, Nikolaos Alachiotis, Wilfred G. van der Wiel
arXiv:2602. 22352v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: With the continuous growth of neural network scales, low-precision quantization is widely used in edge accelerators.
By Yuhao Liu, Salim Ullah, Akash Kumar
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:2602. 23334v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Neural network accelerators have been widely applied to edge devices for complex tasks like object tracking, image recognition, etc.
By Yuhao Liu, Salim Ullah, Akash Kumar