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Building Innovative Hardware in an Era of Artificial Intelligence
Igor Carron, CEO and Co-Founder
LightOn.ai
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Why Build Innovative Hardware?
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3Source: Rebooting the IT Revolution: A Call to Action, SIA, SRC, 2015
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4Source: Mike P. Frank, SNL
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It’s worse!
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6Source: Twitter, Coinbase
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7Source: BBC
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It’s much worse!
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The Footprint of Machine Learning
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CO2 eq.
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Scaling up a new technology from the ground up….fast
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Scaling up a Technology fast
14Source: European Commission
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Unlike NASA/FAA, we don’t have 15+ years
15Source: NASA
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Surfing on Moore’s Law
16Source: TI, Huawei
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Surfing Moore’s Law and Using Nature
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A Fast and Large Random Projection
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Linear
systemDiscrete
input vector
Discrete
output vector
(speckle intensity)
xRandom transmission matrix
H y = | H x |2
EXTRA-LARGEH of size higher than
106 x 106
(TBs of memory)
& SUPER-FAST
kHz operation →103 such
multiplies / s
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How it works
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OPU
Results
Data pre-processing
Laser CameraOptical Random
Projections
DAC ADC
Data in Data out 010001…01111001010101…
Data processing CPU / GPU
“Big & Fat” Data
Spatial Light Modulator
OPU
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Climbing up the TRL scale fast
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TRL 3-4 (2016) TRL 5 (2017)
TRL 6-7 (2018-2019)
Fast prototyping among a diverse set of expertise
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Optical Processing Unit
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Why Random Projections?
14/06/2019 22Source: Volkan Cevher, EPFL
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OPU: No need for large memory
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OPU: No need for large memory
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A Machine Learning example
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Speed Power consumption
x8 -90%
On a typical
Machine Learning
training task
(transfer learning) + +
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Other Uses Already Investigated
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Image
classificationRecommender
systems
Graph
analysisAnomaly
detection
NLP
Video
classification
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Recommender Systems shape our lives at scale!
Recommender Systems
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Randomized Matrix Decompositions using R, Aug 2016, N. Benjamin Erichson, Sergey Voronin, Steven L. Brunton, J. Nathan Kutz
Randomized Linear Algebra
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