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most citedADEPT: Automatic Differentiable DEsign of Photonic Tensor Cores

15 citations · 50 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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physics.optics2026

General-Purpose Photonic Computing Primitive for Contemporary Artificial Intelligence

Shupeng Ning, Chenghao Feng, Zhenxiang Xu +4

Photonic computing offers a promising route to accelerating artificial intelligence (AI) by providing high analog bandwidth, low latency, and low energy consumption. However, exist…

physics.optics2026

Harnessing Photonics for Machine Intelligence

Hanqing Zhu, Shupeng Ning, Hongjian Zhou +4

The exponential growth of machine-intelligence workloads is colliding with the power, memory, and interconnect limits of the post-Moore era, motivating compute substrates that scal…

cs.ET2025

ENLighten: Lighten the Transformer, Enable Efficient Optical Acceleration

Hanqing Zhu, Zhican Zhou, Shupeng Ning +4

Photonic computing has emerged as a promising substrate for accelerating the dense linear-algebra operations at the heart of AI, yet adoption for large Transformer models remains i…

cs.AR2025★ 11 cited

Hardware-Efficient Photonic Tensor Core: Accelerating Deep Neural Networks with Structured Compression

Shupeng Ning, Hanqing Zhu, Chenghao Feng +3

The rapid growth in computing demands, particularly driven by artificial intelligence applications, has begun to exceed the capabilities of traditional electronic hardware. Optical…

cs.LG2024★ 2 cited

PACE: Pacing Operator Learning to Accurate Optical Field Simulation for Complicated Photonic Devices

Hanqing Zhu, Wenyan Cong, Guojin Chen +4

Electromagnetic field simulation is central to designing, optimizing, and validating photonic devices and circuits. However, costly computation associated with numerical simulation…

physics.optics2023

Integrated multi-operand optical neurons for scalable and hardware-efficient deep learning

Chenghao Feng, Jiaqi Gu, Hanqing Zhu +7

The optical neural network (ONN) is a promising hardware platform for next-generation neuromorphic computing due to its high parallelism, low latency, and low energy consumption. H…

cs.ET2023★ 2 cited

Lightening-Transformer: A Dynamically-operated Optically-interconnected Photonic Transformer Accelerator

Hanqing Zhu, Jiaqi Gu, Hanrui Wang +7

The wide adoption and significant computing resource of attention-based transformers, e.g., Vision Transformers and large language models (LLM), have driven the demand for efficien…

cs.ET2023

M3ICRO: Machine Learning-Enabled Compact Photonic Tensor Core based on PRogrammable Multi-Operand Multimode Interference

Jiaqi Gu, Hanqing Zhu, Chenghao Feng +3

Photonic computing shows promise for transformative advancements in machine learning (ML) acceleration, offering ultra-fast speed, massive parallelism, and high energy efficiency.…

physics.med-ph2023

A Point-of-Care Biosensor for Rapid Detection and Differentiation of COVID-19 Virus (SARS-CoV-2) and Influenza Virus Using Subwavelength Grating Micro-ring Resonator

Shupeng Ning, Hao-Chen Chang, Kang-Chieh Fan +4

In the context of continued spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by SARS-CoV-2 and the emergence of new variants, the demand for rapid, accurate, and frequent detec…

cs.ET2022★ 12 cited

NeurOLight: A Physics-Agnostic Neural Operator Enabling Parametric Photonic Device Simulation

Jiaqi Gu, Zhengqi Gao, Chenghao Feng +4

Optical computing is an emerging technology for next-generation efficient artificial intelligence (AI) due to its ultra-high speed and efficiency. Electromagnetic field simulation…

cs.ET2022★ 1 cited

Fuse and Mix: MACAM-Enabled Analog Activation for Energy-Efficient Neural Acceleration

Hanqing Zhu, Keren Zhu, Jiaqi Gu +4

Analog computing has been recognized as a promising low-power alternative to digital counterparts for neural network acceleration. However, conventional analog computing is mainly…

cs.ET2021

ELight: Enabling Efficient Photonic In-Memory Neurocomputing with Life Enhancement

Hanqing Zhu, Jiaqi Gu, Chenghao Feng +4

With the recent advances in optical phase change material (PCM), photonic in-memory neurocomputing has demonstrated its superiority in optical neural network (ONN) designs with nea…

cs.ET2021★ 15 cited

ADEPT: Automatic Differentiable DEsign of Photonic Tensor Cores

Jiaqi Gu, Hanqing Zhu, Chenghao Feng +5

Photonic tensor cores (PTCs) are essential building blocks for optical artificial intelligence (AI) accelerators based on programmable photonic integrated circuits. PTCs can achiev…

cs.ET2021

A compact butterfly-style silicon photonic-electronic neural chip for hardware-efficient deep learning

Chenghao Feng, Jiaqi Gu, Hanqing Zhu +4

The optical neural network (ONN) is a promising hardware platform for next-generation neurocomputing due to its high parallelism, low latency, and low energy consumption. Previous…

cs.LG2021★ 7 cited

L2ight: Enabling On-Chip Learning for Optical Neural Networks via Efficient in-situ Subspace Optimization

Jiaqi Gu, Hanqing Zhu, Chenghao Feng +3

Silicon-photonics-based optical neural network (ONN) is a promising hardware platform that could represent a paradigm shift in efficient AI with its CMOS-compatibility, flexibility…

cs.LG2021

Towards Memory-Efficient Neural Networks via Multi-Level in situ Generation

Jiaqi Gu, Hanqing Zhu, Chenghao Feng +4

Deep neural networks (DNN) have shown superior performance in a variety of tasks. As they rapidly evolve, their escalating computation and memory demands make it challenging to dep…