A new approach to sustainable AI: Offloading part of the computational burden onto light

Researchers at Koç University built two optical systems that process machine learning tasks with light and fiber lasers. These setups preserve color image channels and reduce the number of trainable digital parameters. Engineers can use these optical methods to shift data processing workloads away from electronic circuits.

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