[ME1] Training for Photonic Neural Networks

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[ME1-4] Differentiable Neural Architecture Search for Photonic-Aware Neural Networks

Giovanni Paolini², ○Emilio Paolini¹, Nicola Andriolli², Marco Cococcioni² (¹Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, ²Universitá di Pisa)

Keywords:

Photonics for neuromorphic computing and deep learning,Optical neural networks and reservoir computing

We propose a differentiable Neural Architecture Search framework for photonic-aware neural networks integrating photonic constraints and quantization-aware training. The resulting architectures outperform handcrafted models achieving 79% accuracy at 6-bit quantization, closely matching full-precision baselines.