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Yingjie Li¹, Ruiyang Chen¹, Berardi Sensale-Rodriguez¹

¹Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Utah, 50 S Central Campus Road, Salt Lake City, UT, 84112, USA.

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This study introduces a novel hardware-software co-design for diffractive deep neural networks (D2NNs), enabling real-time multi-task learning. This innovation significantly boosts hardware efficiency and versatility for optical deep learning systems.

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Area of Science:

Optics and Photonics
Computer Science
Artificial Intelligence

Background:

Deep neural networks (DNNs) face performance limitations in resource-constrained environments due to high computational demands.
Optical neural networks offer advantages in power efficiency, parallelism, and speed for deep learning hardware.
Free-space diffractive deep neural networks (D2NNs) leverage light diffraction for massive parallelism but lack reconfigurability, hindering practical efficiency.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop a hardware-software co-design for D2NNs enabling real-time multi-task learning.
To address the reconfigurability challenge in diffractive optical neural networks.
To enhance the versatility and hardware efficiency of D2NNs for practical applications.

Main Methods:

Proposed a novel hardware-software co-design approach for D2NNs.
Implemented real-time task recognition within the D2NN architecture.
Developed a domain-specific regularization algorithm for multi-task training.
Experimentally validated the multi-task D2NN architecture's performance and robustness.

Main Results:

Demonstrated the first real-time multi-task learning capability in D2NNs.
Achieved significant improvements in hardware efficiency and system versatility.
Quantified the robustness of the multi-task D2NN architecture against system component noise.
Showcased flexible performance adjustment for individual tasks using the regularization algorithm.

Conclusions:

The proposed hardware-software co-design enables efficient and versatile multi-task learning in D2NNs.
This approach overcomes the reconfigurability limitations of previous diffractive optical neural networks.
The multi-task D2NN architecture exhibits robustness and adaptability for diverse deep learning applications.