Lightspeed Binary Neural Networks using Optical Phase-Change Materials

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Abstract

This paper investigates the potential of a compute-in-memory core based on optical Phase Change Materials (oPCMs) to speed up and reduce the energy consumption of the Matrix-Matrix-Multiplication operation. The paper also proposes a new data mapping for Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) tailored for our oPCM core. The preliminary results show a significant latency improvement irrespective of the evaluated network structure and size. The improvement varies from network to network and goes up to ~1053x.

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