Abstract:
As a promising neuromorphic framework, the optical neural network (ONN) demonstrates ultra-high inference speed with low energy consumption. However, the previous ONN arc...Show MoreMetadata
Abstract:
As a promising neuromorphic framework, the optical neural network (ONN) demonstrates ultra-high inference speed with low energy consumption. However, the previous ONN architectures have high area overhead which limits their practicality. In this paper, we propose an area-efficient ONN architecture based on structured neural networks, leveraging optical fast Fourier transform for efficient computation. A two-phase software training flow with structured pruning is proposed to further reduce the optical component utilization. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed architecture can achieve 2.2~3.7× area cost improvement compared with the previous singular value decomposition-based architecture with comparable inference accuracy.
Date of Conference: 13-16 January 2020
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 26 March 2020
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