18472649. OPTICALLY ACTIVATED NEURAL NETWORKS (HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT LP)
OPTICALLY ACTIVATED NEURAL NETWORKS
Organization Name
HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT LP
Inventor(s)
DAVID Strenski of Ypsilanti MI US
SREENIVAS RANGAN Sukumar of Seattle WA US
OPTICALLY ACTIVATED NEURAL NETWORKS
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18472649 titled 'OPTICALLY ACTIVATED NEURAL NETWORKS
Original Abstract Submitted
Systems and methods are provided for an optical transport implementation of an inference engine capable of performing inferences in the optical domain. Examples include an optical device that includes photon directing devices disposed along an optical axis, each photon directing device corresponds to a layer of a trained machine learning model. Lenses are provided for each photon directing device, which are formed based on weights of a layer of the trained machine learning model corresponding to the respective photon directing device. The examples may also include optical sensors that correspond to inferences of the trained machine learning model, and the photon directing devices may be configured to receive light of an input and direct the light to one of the optical sensors according to the trained machine learning model.