Semiconductor Engineering

Parallel Implementation Of Nonlinear Functions Using An Optical Processor (UCLA)

A new technical paper titled “Massively parallel and universal approximation of nonlinear functions using diffractive processors” was published by researchers at UCLA. “Nonlinear computation is ...
Morningstar

NTT Research Collaboration Breaks the “One Device, One Function” Paradigm with World’s First Programmable Nonlinear Photonics Chip

New paper published in Nature details NTT Research’s development of the world’s first programmable nonlinear photonic waveguide in collaboration with Cornell University and Stanford University. A ...
Ars Technica

Getting an all-optical AI to handle non-linear math

A standard digital camera used in a car for stuff like emergency braking has a perceptual latency of a hair above 20 milliseconds. That’s just the time needed for a camera to transform the photons ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Implementing AI Activation Functions

Activation functions play a critical role in AI inference, helping to ferret out nonlinear behaviors in AI models. This makes them an integral part of any neural network, but nonlinear functions can ...