Photonic neural networks and optics-informed deep learning fundamentals

A Tsakyridis, M Moralis-Pegios, G Giamougiannis… - APL Photonics, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
The recent explosive compute growth, mainly fueled by the boost of artificial intelligence (AI)
and deep neural networks (DNNs), is currently instigating the demand for a novel computing …

Quantization-aware training for low precision photonic neural networks

M Kirtas, A Oikonomou, N Passalis… - Neural Networks, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Recent advances in Deep Learning (DL) fueled the interest in developing
neuromorphic hardware accelerators that can improve the computational speed and energy …

Universal Linear Optics for Ultra-Fast Neuromorphic Silicon Photonics Towards Fj/MAC and TMAC/sec/mm2 Engines

A Tsakyridis, G Giamougiannis… - IEEE Journal of …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The field of neuromorphic photonics has been projected to comprise the next-generation
Neural Network platform, expected to lead to remarkable advances in compute energy-and …

Robust architecture-agnostic and noise resilient training of photonic deep learning models

M Kirtas, N Passalis… - … on Emerging Topics …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Neuromorphic photonic accelerators for Deep Learning (DL) have increasingly gained
attention over the recent years due to their ability for ultra fast matrix-based calculations and …

Channel response-aware photonic neural network accelerators for high-speed inference through bandwidth-limited optics

G Mourgias-Alexandris, M Moralis-Pegios… - Optics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Photonic neural network accelerators (PNNAs) have been lately brought into the spotlight as
a new class of custom hardware that can leverage the maturity of photonic integration …

Mixed-precision quantization-aware training for photonic neural networks

M Kirtas, N Passalis, A Oikonomou… - Neural Computing and …, 2023 - Springer
The energy demanding nature of deep learning (DL) has fueled the immense attention for
neuromorphic architectures due to their ability to operate in a very high frequencies in a very …

Analysis of Integration Technologies for High-Speed Analog Neuromorphic Photonics

L De Marinis, N Andriolli… - IEEE Journal of Selected …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
While the use of graphic processing units fueled the success of artificial intelligence models,
their future evolution will likely require overcoming the speed and energy efficiency …

Learning photonic neural network initialization for noise-aware end-to-end fiber transmission

M Kirtas, N Passalis… - 2022 30th European …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep Learning (DL) has dominated a wide range of applications due to its state-of-the-art
performance. Novel approaches introduce Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) on fiber …

Normalized post-training quantization for photonic neural networks

M Kirtas, N Passalis, A Oikonomou… - … symposium series on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The recent advances of Deep Learning (DL) have fueled the research of hardware
accelerators, which can signif-icantly improve the computation speed and energy efficiency …

Non-negative isomorphic neural networks for photonic neuromorphic accelerators

M Kirtas, N Passalis, N Pleros, A Tefas - arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.01084, 2023 - arxiv.org
Neuromorphic photonic accelerators are becoming increasingly popular, since they can
significantly improve computation speed and energy efficiency, leading to femtojoule per …