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Large-Scale Optical Neural Networks based on Photoelectric Multiplication
Recent success in deep neural networks has generated strong interest in
hardware accelerators to improve speed and energy consumption. This paper
presents a new type of photonic accelerator based on coherent detection that is
scalable to large () networks and can be operated at high (GHz)
speeds and very low (sub-aJ) energies per multiply-and-accumulate (MAC), using
the massive spatial multiplexing enabled by standard free-space optical
components. In contrast to previous approaches, both weights and inputs are
optically encoded so that the network can be reprogrammed and trained on the
fly. Simulations of the network using models for digit- and
image-classification reveal a "standard quantum limit" for optical neural
networks, set by photodetector shot noise. This bound, which can be as low as
50 zJ/MAC, suggests performance below the thermodynamic (Landauer) limit for
digital irreversible computation is theoretically possible in this device. The
proposed accelerator can implement both fully-connected and convolutional
networks. We also present a scheme for back-propagation and training that can
be performed in the same hardware. This architecture will enable a new class of
ultra-low-energy processors for deep learning.Comment: Text: 10 pages, 5 figures, 1 table. Supplementary: 8 pages, 5,
figures, 2 table
Factory of realities: on the emergence of virtual spatiotemporal structures
The ubiquitous nature of modern Information Retrieval and Virtual World give
rise to new realities. To what extent are these "realities" real? Which
"physics" should be applied to quantitatively describe them? In this essay I
dwell on few examples. The first is Adaptive neural networks, which are not
networks and not neural, but still provide service similar to classical ANNs in
extended fashion. The second is the emergence of objects looking like
Einsteinian spacetime, which describe the behavior of an Internet surfer like
geodesic motion. The third is the demonstration of nonclassical and even
stronger-than-quantum probabilities in Information Retrieval, their use.
Immense operable datasets provide new operationalistic environments, which
become to greater and greater extent "realities". In this essay, I consider the
overall Information Retrieval process as an objective physical process,
representing it according to Melucci metaphor in terms of physical-like
experiments. Various semantic environments are treated as analogs of various
realities. The readers' attention is drawn to topos approach to physical
theories, which provides a natural conceptual and technical framework to cope
with the new emerging realities.Comment: 21 p
Qubit representation of qudit states: correlations and state reconstruction
A method to establish a qubit decomposition of a general qudit state is
presented. This new representation allows a geometrical depiction of any qudit
state in the Bloch sphere. Additionally, we show that the nonnegativity
conditions of the qudit state imply the existence of quantum correlations
between the qubits which compose it. These correlations are used to define new
inequalities which the density matrices components must satisfy. The importance
of such inequalities in the reconstruction of a qudit state is addressed. As an
example of the general procedure the qubit decomposition of a qutrit system is
shown, which allows a classification of the qutrit states by fixing their
invariants , .Comment: Accepted in Quantum Information Processing journa
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