activity
20202026
most citedScalable Optical Learning Operator

187 citations · 217 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

collaborators

11 papers

quant-ph2026

Comparative Performance Analysis of NIST PQC Standards: From STM32 Software Limitations to FPGA-SoC Acceleration

Mustafa Akif Yıldırım, Osman Tokluoglu

The rapid advancement of quantum computing poses a significant threat to classical public-key cryptographic systems, necessitating the transition to Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC)…

cs.ET2025★ 18 cited

Roadmap on Neuromorphic Photonics

Daniel Brunner, Bhavin J. Shastri, Mohammed A. Al Qadasi +147

This roadmap consolidates recent advances while exploring emerging applications, reflecting the remarkable diversity of hardware platforms, neuromorphic concepts, and implementatio…

physics.optics2025

Training Hybrid Neural Networks with Multimode Optical Nonlinearities Using Digital Twins

Ilker Oguz, Louis J. E. Suter, Jih-Liang Hsieh +4

The ability to train ever-larger neural networks brings artificial intelligence to the forefront of scientific and technical discoveries. However, their exponentially increasing si…

physics.optics2024

Optical Diffusion Models for Image Generation

Ilker Oguz, Niyazi Ulas Dinc, Mustafa Yildirim +6

Diffusion models generate new samples by progressively decreasing the noise from the initially provided random distribution. This inference procedure generally utilizes a trained n…

physics.optics2024

Programming the scalable optical learning operator with spatial-spectral optimization

Yi Zhou, Jih-Liang Hsieh, Ilker Oguz +6

Electronic computers have evolved drastically over the past years with an ever-growing demand for improved performance. However, the transfer of information from memory and high en…

physics.optics2024★ 3 cited

Multicasting Optical Reconfigurable Switch

Niyazi Ulas Dinc, Mustafa Yildirim, Ilker Oguz +2

Artificial Intelligence (AI) demands large data flows within datacenters, heavily relying on multicasting data transfers. As AI models scale, the requirement for high-bandwidth and…

physics.optics2023★ 1 cited

Nonlinear Processing with Linear Optics

Mustafa Yildirim, Niyazi Ulas Dinc, Ilker Oguz +2

Deep neural networks have achieved remarkable breakthroughs by leveraging multiple layers of data processing to extract hidden representations, albeit at the cost of large electron…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Forward-Forward Training of an Optical Neural Network

Ilker Oguz, Junjie Ke, Qifei Wang +6

Neural networks (NN) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in various tasks, but their computation-intensive nature demands faster and more energy-efficient hardware implementa…

physics.optics2022★ 3 cited

Nonlinear Optical Data Transformer for Machine Learning

Mustafa Yildirim, Ilker Oguz, Fabian Kaufmann +4

Modern machine learning models use an ever-increasing number of parameters to train (175 billion parameters for GPT-3) with large datasets to obtain better performance. Bigger is b…

cs.ET2022★ 4 cited

Programming Nonlinear Propagation for Efficient Optical Learning Machines

Ilker Oguz, Jih-Liang Hsieh, Niyazi Ulas Dinc +5

The ever-increasing demand for processing data with larger machine learning models requires more efficient hardware solutions due to limitations such as power dissipation and scala…

physics.optics2020★ 187 cited

Scalable Optical Learning Operator

Uğur Teğin, Mustafa Yıldırım, İlker Oğuz +2

Today's heavy machine learning tasks are fueled by large datasets. Computing is performed with power hungry processors whose performance is ultimately limited by the data transfer…