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Record W4410536797 · doi:10.1109/jlt.2025.3571748

A Microwave Photonic Processor for Convolutional Neural Networks With Increased Effective Speed of Convolution

2025· article· en· W4410536797 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Lightwave Technology · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicNeural Networks and Reservoir Computing
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Ottawa
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
KeywordsConvolution (computer science)Convolutional neural networkPhotonicsMicrowaveComputer scienceKernel (algebra)Electronic engineeringArtificial neural networkParallel computingOpticsArtificial intelligencePhysicsTelecommunicationsMathematicsEngineering

Abstract

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Due to the strong feature extraction capabilities, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been utilized for various tasks, including image recognition, object detection, and natural language processing. The primary computational demand of CNNs stems from the convolution operations. In this paper, we propose a novel microwave photonic processor to accelerate the convolution operations in a CNN by increasing the effective speed of convolution. Thanks to the novel system architecture and the associated serialization approach, the effective speed is increased. Specifically, for a CNN with an M×M kernel size, the effective speed is increased by M times. The proposed processor is experimentally tested in which the MNIST and Fashion MNIST datasets are employed for its performance evaluation. The increase in the effective speed of convolution is experimentally confirmed. A computing speed of 102.4 giga operations per second (GOPS) with a root mean squared error (RMSE) of 0.0110 is demonstrated. In addition, the accuracies for the MNIST and Fashion MNIST image classification tasks are 98% and 88%, respectively.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.752
Threshold uncertainty score0.517

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Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.005
GPT teacher head0.231
Teacher spread0.226 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it