Training of Physical Neural Networks

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Main Authors: Momeni, Ali, Rahmani, Babak, Scellier, Benjamin, Wright, Logan G., McMahon, Peter L., Wanjura, Clara C., Li, Yuhang, Skalli, Anas, Berloff, Natalia G., Onodera, Tatsuhiro, Oguz, Ilker, Morichetti, Francesco, del Hougne, Philipp, Gallo, Manuel Le, Sebastian, Abu, Mirhoseini, Azalia, Zhang, Cheng, Marković, Danijela, Brunner, Daniel, Moser, Christophe, Gigan, Sylvain, Marquardt, Florian, Ozcan, Aydogan, Grollier, Julie, Liu, Andrea J., Psaltis, Demetri, Alù, Andrea, Fleury, Romain
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author Momeni, Ali
Rahmani, Babak
Scellier, Benjamin
Wright, Logan G.
McMahon, Peter L.
Wanjura, Clara C.
Li, Yuhang
Skalli, Anas
Berloff, Natalia G.
Onodera, Tatsuhiro
Oguz, Ilker
Morichetti, Francesco
del Hougne, Philipp
Gallo, Manuel Le
Sebastian, Abu
Mirhoseini, Azalia
Zhang, Cheng
Marković, Danijela
Brunner, Daniel
Moser, Christophe
Gigan, Sylvain
Marquardt, Florian
Ozcan, Aydogan
Grollier, Julie
Liu, Andrea J.
Psaltis, Demetri
Alù, Andrea
Fleury, Romain
author_facet Momeni, Ali
Rahmani, Babak
Scellier, Benjamin
Wright, Logan G.
McMahon, Peter L.
Wanjura, Clara C.
Li, Yuhang
Skalli, Anas
Berloff, Natalia G.
Onodera, Tatsuhiro
Oguz, Ilker
Morichetti, Francesco
del Hougne, Philipp
Gallo, Manuel Le
Sebastian, Abu
Mirhoseini, Azalia
Zhang, Cheng
Marković, Danijela
Brunner, Daniel
Moser, Christophe
Gigan, Sylvain
Marquardt, Florian
Ozcan, Aydogan
Grollier, Julie
Liu, Andrea J.
Psaltis, Demetri
Alù, Andrea
Fleury, Romain
contents Physical neural networks (PNNs) are a class of neural-like networks that leverage the properties of physical systems to perform computation. While PNNs are so far a niche research area with small-scale laboratory demonstrations, they are arguably one of the most underappreciated important opportunities in modern AI. Could we train AI models 1000x larger than current ones? Could we do this and also have them perform inference locally and privately on edge devices, such as smartphones or sensors? Research over the past few years has shown that the answer to all these questions is likely "yes, with enough research": PNNs could one day radically change what is possible and practical for AI systems. To do this will however require rethinking both how AI models work, and how they are trained - primarily by considering the problems through the constraints of the underlying hardware physics. To train PNNs at large scale, many methods including backpropagation-based and backpropagation-free approaches are now being explored. These methods have various trade-offs, and so far no method has been shown to scale to the same scale and performance as the backpropagation algorithm widely used in deep learning today. However, this is rapidly changing, and a diverse ecosystem of training techniques provides clues for how PNNs may one day be utilized to create both more efficient realizations of current-scale AI models, and to enable unprecedented-scale models.
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spellingShingle Training of Physical Neural Networks
Momeni, Ali
Rahmani, Babak
Scellier, Benjamin
Wright, Logan G.
McMahon, Peter L.
Wanjura, Clara C.
Li, Yuhang
Skalli, Anas
Berloff, Natalia G.
Onodera, Tatsuhiro
Oguz, Ilker
Morichetti, Francesco
del Hougne, Philipp
Gallo, Manuel Le
Sebastian, Abu
Mirhoseini, Azalia
Zhang, Cheng
Marković, Danijela
Brunner, Daniel
Moser, Christophe
Gigan, Sylvain
Marquardt, Florian
Ozcan, Aydogan
Grollier, Julie
Liu, Andrea J.
Psaltis, Demetri
Alù, Andrea
Fleury, Romain
Applied Physics
Machine Learning
Physical neural networks (PNNs) are a class of neural-like networks that leverage the properties of physical systems to perform computation. While PNNs are so far a niche research area with small-scale laboratory demonstrations, they are arguably one of the most underappreciated important opportunities in modern AI. Could we train AI models 1000x larger than current ones? Could we do this and also have them perform inference locally and privately on edge devices, such as smartphones or sensors? Research over the past few years has shown that the answer to all these questions is likely "yes, with enough research": PNNs could one day radically change what is possible and practical for AI systems. To do this will however require rethinking both how AI models work, and how they are trained - primarily by considering the problems through the constraints of the underlying hardware physics. To train PNNs at large scale, many methods including backpropagation-based and backpropagation-free approaches are now being explored. These methods have various trade-offs, and so far no method has been shown to scale to the same scale and performance as the backpropagation algorithm widely used in deep learning today. However, this is rapidly changing, and a diverse ecosystem of training techniques provides clues for how PNNs may one day be utilized to create both more efficient realizations of current-scale AI models, and to enable unprecedented-scale models.
title Training of Physical Neural Networks
topic Applied Physics
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.03372