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Bayesian Photonic Accelerators for Energy Efficient and Noise Robust Neural Processing

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posted on 2023-01-10, 02:31 authored by George Sarantoglou, Adonis Bogris, Charis Mesaritakis, Sergios Theodoridis
Artificial neural networks are efficient computing platforms inspired by the brain. Such platforms can tackle a vast area of real-life tasks ranging from image processing to language translation. Silicon photonic integrated chips (PICs), by employing coherent interactions in Mach-Zehnder interferometers, are promising accelerators offering record low power consumption and ultra-fast matrix multiplication. Such photonic accelerators, however, suffer from phase uncertainty due to fabrication errors and crosstalk effects that inhibit the development of high-density implementations. In this work, we present a Bayesian learning framework for such photonic accelerators. In addition to the conventional log-likelihood optimization path, two novel training schemes are derived, namely a regularized version and a fully Bayesian learning scheme. They are applied on a photonic neural network with 512 phase shifters targeting the MNIST dataset. The new schemes, when combined with a pre-characterization stage that provides the passive offsets, are able to dramatically decrease the operational power of the PIC beyond 70%, with just a slight loss in classification accuracy. The full Bayesian scheme, apart from this energy reduction, returns information with respect to the sensitivity of the phase shifters. This information is used to de-activate 31% of the phase actuators and, thus, significantly simplify the driving system.

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