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Workshop: Machine Learning with New Compute Paradigms

Inference analysis of optical transformers

Xianxin Guo · Chenchen Wang · Djamshid Damry

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Sat 16 Dec 9:25 a.m. PST — 10:30 a.m. PST

Abstract:

This paper explores the utilization of optical computing for accelerating inference in transformer models, which have demonstrated substantial success in various applications. Optical computing offers ultra-fast computation and ultra-high energy efficiency compared to conventional electronics. Our findings suggest that optical implementation has the potential to achieve a significant 10-100 times improvement in the inference throughput of compute-limited transformer models.

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