5 papers
SKYLIGHT: A Scalable Hundred-Channel 3D Photonic In-Memory Tensor Core Architecture for Real-time AI Inference
Meng Zhang, Ziang Yin, Nicholas Gangi +5
The growing computational demands of artificial intelligence (AI) are challenging conventional electronics, making photonic computing a promising alternative. However, existing pho…
Toward Large-Scale Photonics-Empowered AI Systems: From Physical Design Automation to System-Algorithm Co-Exploration
Ziang Yin, Hongjian Zhou, Nicholas Gangi +4
In this work, we identify three considerations that are essential for realizing practical photonic AI systems at scale: (1) dynamic tensor operation support for modern models rathe…
Photonics-Aware Planning-Guided Automated Electrical Routing for Large-Scale Active Photonic Integrated Circuits
Hongjian Zhou, Haoyu Yang, Nicholas Gangi +6
The rising demand for AI training and inference, as well as scientific computing, combined with stringent latency and energy budgets, is driving the adoption of integrated photonic…
Pangu Light: Weight Re-Initialization for Pruning and Accelerating LLMs
Hanting Chen, Jiarui Qin, Jialong Guo +15
Large Language Models (LLMs) deliver state-of-the-art capabilities across numerous tasks, but their immense size and inference costs pose significant computational challenges for p…
MAPS: Multi-Fidelity AI-Augmented Photonic Simulation and Inverse Design Infrastructure
Pingchuan Ma, Zhengqi Gao, Meng Zhang +5
Inverse design has emerged as a transformative approach for photonic device optimization, enabling the exploration of high-dimensional, non-intuitive design spaces to create ultra-…