arxivcs.ARcs.AI2026-07-20
Opto-ViT-v2: Noise-Resilient On-Chip Fine-Tuning for Photonic Near-Sensor Vision Transformer Accelerators
Xuming Chen, Deniz Najafi, Mehrdad Morsali, Chengwei Zhou, Zahra Ghanaatianjobzari, Mahdi Nikdast, et al.
Silicon-photonic (SiPh) accelerators have emerged as a promising platform for Vision Transformer (ViT) inference by performing matrix multiplications on microring-resonator (MRR) banks with high throughput and energy efficiency. Extending these platforms to support on-chip fine-t…