[1K3-OS-10a] [Organized Session] OS-10

[1K3-OS-10a-04] A Light-Driven Artificial Neural Network Architecture for Deep Neural Network

〇Takuya Otsuka¹, Shiori Konisho¹ (1. Nippon Telegraph and Telephone)

Keywords:AI devices, DNN computing architecture, materials

With the aim of making an IoT device more environmentally friendly, we attempted to redesign the physical layer of an IoT device architecture for a deep neural network. A method for making a deep neural network device for inference execution with a plastic optical fiber is proposed. The device comprises sum-of-product arithmetic units driven by light from an external light source and non-linear activation function units. These units are concatenated in line and form a layered network without optical amplifiers.