Activation Stretching for Tackling Noise in Photonic Aware Neural Networks (Th2A.13)
Presenter: Emilio Paolini, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
This paper introduces a stretching strategy for nonlinear activation functions aimed to enhance noise resilience in photonic-aware neural networks. Its effectiveness is numerically demonstrated in counteracting different noise levels in low-resolution operations.
Authors:Emilio Paolini, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna / Lorenzo De Marinis, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna / Luca Valcarenghi, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna / Luca Maggiani, Sma-RTy / Nicola Andriolli, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche