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ArticleNature2021

11 TOPS photonic convolutional accelerator for optical neural networks.

Xingyuan Xu, Mengxi Tan, Bill Corcoran, Jiayang Wu, Andreas Boes, Thach G Nguyen, Sai T Chu, Brent E Little, Damien G Hicks, Roberto Morandotti and 2 more

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Article in Nature, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 217 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

217 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors.

Xingyuan XuOptical Sciences Centre, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8190-4700
Mengxi TanOptical Sciences Centre, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia.
Bill CorcoranDepartment of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8653-3999
Jiayang WuOptical Sciences Centre, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia.
Andreas BoesSchool of Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8443-3396
Thach G NguyenSchool of Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Sai T ChuDepartment of Physics, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Avenue, Hong Kong, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8263-8507
Brent E LittleXi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an, China.
Damien G HicksOptical Sciences Centre, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8322-9983
Roberto MorandottiINRS-Énergie, Matériaux et Télécommunications, Varennes, Québec, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7717-1519
Arnan MitchellSchool of Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2463-2956
David J MossOptical Sciences Centre, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia. dmoss@swin.edu.au.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5195-1744

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Convolutional neural networks, inspired by biological visual cortex systems, are a powerful category of artificial neural networks that can extract the hierarchical features of raw data to provide greatly reduced parametric complexity and to enhance the accuracy of prediction. They are of great interest for machine learning tasks such as computer vision, speech recognition, playing board games and medical diagnosis

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