3 papers
cs.ET2026
Light-Bound Transformers: Hardware-Anchored Robustness for Silicon-Photonic Computer Vision Systems
Xuming Chen, Deniz Najafi, Chengwei Zhou +6
Deploying Vision Transformers (ViTs) on near-sensor analog accelerators demands training pipelines that are explicitly aligned with device-level noise and energy constraints. We in…
cs.AR2025
Opto-ViT: Architecting a Near-Sensor Region of Interest-Aware Vision Transformer Accelerator with Silicon Photonics
Mehrdad Morsali, Chengwei Zhou, Deniz Najafi +7
Vision Transformers (ViTs) have emerged as a powerful architecture for computer vision tasks due to their ability to model long-range dependencies and global contextual relationshi…
cs.AR2024
Neuro-Photonix: Enabling Near-Sensor Neuro-Symbolic AI Computing on Silicon Photonics Substrate
Deniz Najafi, Hamza Errahmouni Barkam, Mehrdad Morsali +6
Neuro-symbolic Artificial Intelligence (AI) models, blending neural networks with symbolic AI, have facilitated transparent reasoning and context understanding without the need for…