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Training and Inference of Optical Neural Networks with Noise and Low-Bits Control

Danni Zhang    
Yejin Zhang    
Ye Zhang    
Yanmei Su    
Junkai Yi    
Pengfei Wang    
Ruiting Wang    
Guangzhen Luo    
Xuliang Zhou and Jiaoqing Pan    

Resumen

Optical neural networks (ONNs) are getting more and more attention due to their advantages such as high-speed and low power consumption. However, in a non-ideal environment, the noise and low-bits control may heavily lead to a decrease in the accuracy of ONNs. Since there is AD/DA conversion in a simulated neural network, it needs to be quantified in the model. In this paper, we propose a quantitative method to adapt ONN to a non-ideal environment with fixed-point transmission, based on the new chip structure we designed previously. An MNIST hand-written data set was used to test and simulate the model we established. The experimental results showed that the quantization-noise model we established has a good performance, for which the accuracy was up to about 96%. Compared with the electrical method, the proposed quantization method can effectively solve the non-ideal ONN problem.