Neuromorphic photonic technologies and architectures: scaling opportunities and performance frontiers

G Dabos, DV Bellas, R Stabile… - Optical Materials …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
We review different technologies and architectures for neuromorphic photonic accelerators,
spanning from bulk optics to photonic-integrated-circuits (PICs), and assess compute …

Neuromorphic silicon photonics and hardware-aware deep learning for high-speed inference

M Moralis-Pegios… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The relentless growth of Artificial Intelligence (AI) workloads has fueled the drive towards
non-Von Neuman architectures and custom computing hardware. Neuromorphic photonic …

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 …

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 …

A robust, quantization-aware training method for photonic neural networks

A Oikonomou, M Kirtas, N Passalis… - … applications of neural …, 2022 - Springer
The computationally demanding nature of Deep Learning (DL) has fueled the research on
neuromorphics due to their potential to provide high-speed and low energy hardware …

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 …

Early detection of ddos attacks using photonic neural networks

M Kirtas, N Passalis, D Kalavrouziotis… - 2022 IEEE 14th …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep Learning (DL) has been extensively used in challenging tasks including security
applications such as Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. However, the high speed …

Multiplicative update rules for accelerating deep learning training and increasing robustness

M Kirtas, N Passalis, A Tefas - Neurocomputing, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Even nowadays, where Deep Learning (DL) has achieved state-of-the-art
performance in a wide range of research domains, accelerating training and building robust …