3 papers
physics.optics2026
Scaling Photonic Tensor Cores with Unary and Homodyne Designs
Oluwaseun Alo, Ishan Thakkar
We analyze five photonic microring tensor core designs with a common optical power model. The results show that circuit ordering, unary encoding, and homodyne accumulation shape sc…
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.AR2024
Scaling Analog Photonic Accelerators for Byte-Size, Integer General Matrix Multiply (GEMM) Kernels
Oluwaseun Adewunmi Alo, Sairam Sri Vatsavai, Ishan Thakkar
Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) predominantly rely on General Matrix Multiply (GEMM) kernels, which are often accelerated using specialized hardware architectures. Recently, analog pho…