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PISim: A Unified Photonic Inference Simulator for Hardware-Aware Cross-Layer Design-Space Exploration
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- PISim is a simulator for designing photonic neural accelerators that models optical hardware impairments and electro-optical interfaces to predict inference accuracy before fabrication.
- Why it matters
- Hardware engineers designing photonic AI accelerators need this to explore design trade-offs and optimize precision settings before committing to expensive tape-out.
- Watch out
- Results shown only on MNIST MLP benchmarks; real-world applicability to larger models and diverse workloads remains undemonstrated in this work.
- lora
- inference
- throughput
- latency
- eval
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