2021
Photonic Differential Privacy with Direct Feedback Alignment
Ruben Ohana, Hamlet Jesse Medina Ruiz, Julien Launay, Alessandro Cappelli, Iacopo Poli, Liva Ralaivola +1
NeurIPS 2021poster
Optical Processing Units (OPUs) -- low-power photonic chips dedicated to large scale random projections -- have been used in previous work to train deep neural networks using Direct Feedback Alignment (DFA), an effective alternative to backpropagation. Here, we demonstrate how to leverage the intrin…