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20242026
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5 papers

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

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

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…