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cs.AR2026

Hardware Trojan Threats to Multi-Chiplet Photonic Neural Network Accelerators

Sudeep Pasricha

Multi-chiplet photonic neural network accelerators (MCPNAs) combine photonic computation, photonic communica-tion, and heterogeneous chiplet integration to enable scalable and ener…

cs.AR2026

MCFlash: Bulk Bitwise Processing in 3D NAND with Dynamic Sensing and Multi-level Encoding

Habib Ur Rahman, Tharini Suresh, Sudeep Pasricha +1

This paper presents MCFlash, a practical and immediately deployable technique for executing bulk bitwise operations directly within commercial off-the-shelf(COTS) 3D NAND flash chi…

cs.AR2026

Sustainable Transformer Neural Network Acceleration with Stochastic Photonic Computing

S. Afifi, O. Alo, I. Thakkar +1

Transformers achieve state-of-the-art performance in natural language processing, vision, and scientific computing, but demand high computation and memory. To address these challen…

cs.AR2026

Accelerating Diffusion Models for Generative AI Applications with Silicon Photonics

Tharini Suresh, Salma Afifi, Sudeep Pasricha

Diffusion models have revolutionized generative AI, with their inherent capacity to generate highly realistic state-of-the-art synthetic data. However, these models employ an itera…

cs.AR2025

PhotoGAN: Generative Adversarial Neural Network Acceleration with Silicon Photonics

Tharini Suresh, Salma Afifi, Sudeep Pasricha

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are at the forefront of AI innovation, driving advancements in areas such as image synthesis, medical imaging, and data augmentation. However…

cs.AR2024★ 1 cited

Optical Computing for Deep Neural Network Acceleration: Foundations, Recent Developments, and Emerging Directions

Sudeep Pasricha

Emerging artificial intelligence applications across the domains of computer vision, natural language processing, graph processing, and sequence prediction increasingly rely on dee…

cs.AR2024

ARTEMIS: A Mixed Analog-Stochastic In-DRAM Accelerator for Transformer Neural Networks

Salma Afifi, Ishan Thakkar, Sudeep Pasricha

Transformers have emerged as a powerful tool for natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision. Through the attention mechanism, these models have exhibited remarkable perf…

cs.AR2024

OPIMA: Optical Processing-In-Memory for Convolutional Neural Network Acceleration

Febin Sunny, Amin Shafiee, Abhishek Balasubramaniam +2

Recent advances in machine learning (ML) have spotlighted the pressing need for computing architectures that bridge the gap between memory bandwidth and processing power. The adven…

cs.AR2024

Silicon Photonic 2.5D Interposer Networks for Overcoming Communication Bottlenecks in Scale-out Machine Learning Hardware Accelerators

Febin Sunny, Ebadollah Taheri, Mahdi Nikdast +1

Modern machine learning (ML) applications are becoming increasingly complex and monolithic (single chip) accelerator architectures cannot keep up with their energy efficiency and t…

cs.AR2024

Accelerating Neural Networks for Large Language Models and Graph Processing with Silicon Photonics

Salma Afifi, Febin Sunny, Mahdi Nikdast +1

In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, large language models (LLMs) and graph processing have emerged as transformative technologies for natural language pro…

cs.AR2023

COMET: A Cross-Layer Optimized Optical Phase Change Main Memory Architecture

Febin Sunny, Amin Shafiee, Benoit Charbonnier +2

Traditional DRAM-based main memory systems face several challenges with memory refresh overhead, high latency, and low throughput as the industry moves towards smaller DRAM cells.…

cs.AR2023★ 2 cited

GHOST: A Graph Neural Network Accelerator using Silicon Photonics

Salma Afifi, Febin Sunny, Amin Shafiee +2

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have emerged as a powerful approach for modelling and learning from graph-structured data. Multiple fields have since benefitted enormously from the ca…

cs.AR2023

Machine Learning Accelerators in 2.5D Chiplet Platforms with Silicon Photonics

Febin Sunny, Ebadollah Taheri, Mahdi Nikdast +1

Domain-specific machine learning (ML) accelerators such as Google's TPU and Apple's Neural Engine now dominate CPUs and GPUs for energy-efficient ML processing. However, the evolut…

cs.AR2022★ 1 cited

Electronic, Wireless, and Photonic Network-on-Chip Security: Challenges and Countermeasures

Sudeep Pasricha, John Jose, Sujay Deb

Networks-on-chips (NoCs) are an integral part of emerging manycore computing chips. They play a key role in facilitating communication among processing cores and between cores and…

cs.AR2022

ReSiPI: A Reconfigurable Silicon-Photonic 2.5D Chiplet Network with PCMs for Energy-Efficient Interposer Communication

Ebadollah Taheri, Sudeep Pasricha, Mahdi Nikdast

2.5D chiplet systems have been proposed to improve the low manufacturing yield of large-scale chips. However, connecting the chiplets through an electronic interposer imposes a hig…

cs.AR2022★ 10 cited

RACE: A Reinforcement Learning Framework for Improved Adaptive Control of NoC Channel Buffers

Kamil Khan, Sudeep Pasricha, Ryan Gary Kim

Network-on-chip (NoC) architectures rely on buffers to store flits to cope with contention for router resources during packet switching. Recently, reversible multi-function channel…

cs.AR2022★ 1 cited

A Silicon Photonic Accelerator for Convolutional Neural Networks with Heterogeneous Quantization

Febin Sunny, Mahdi Nikdast, Sudeep Pasricha

Parameter quantization in convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can help generate efficient models with lower memory footprint and computational complexity. But, homogeneous quantiz…

cs.AR2020

A Survey of Resource Management for Processing-in-Memory and Near-Memory Processing Architectures

Kamil Khan, Sudeep Pasricha, Ryan Gary Kim

Due to amount of data involved in emerging deep learning and big data applications, operations related to data movement have quickly become the bottleneck. Data-centric computing (…

cs.AR2020★ 1 cited

Exploiting Process Variations to Secure Photonic NoC Architectures from Snooping Attacks

Sai Vineel Reddy Chittamuru, Ishan G Thakkar, Sudeep Pasricha +2

The compact size and high wavelength-selectivity of microring resonators (MRs) enable photonic networks-on-chip (PNoCs) to utilize dense-wavelength-division-multiplexing (DWDM) in…

cs.AR2020★ 1 cited

LORAX: Loss-Aware Approximations for Energy-Efficient Silicon Photonic Networks-on-Chip

Febin Sunny, Asif Mirza, Ishan Thakkar +2

The approximate computing paradigm advocates for relaxing accuracy goals in applications to improve energy-efficiency and performance. Recently, this paradigm has been explored to…