HolyLight : a nanophotonic accelerator for deep learning in data centers

• Main Authors: Liu, Weichen, Liu, Wenyang, Ye, Yichen, Lou, Qian, Xie, Yiyuan, Jiang, Lei
• Other Authors: School of Computer Science and Engineering
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Engineering::Computer science and engineering; Photonic DNN Accelerator; Microdisk
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/145393
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are widely adopted in object recognition, speech processing and machine translation, due to their extremely high inference accuracy. However, it is challenging to compute massive computationally expensive convolutions of deep CNNs on traditional CPUs and GPUs. Em...