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Performing Matrix Multiplications at the Speed of Light for Enhanced Cybersecurity

Matrix multiplications at the speed of light
Electro-optic blocks cointegrated for the development of a neuromorphic photonic processor. Credit: Giamougiannis et al., doi 10.1117/1.AP.5.1.016004

“All things are numbers,” avowed Pythagoras. Today, 25 centuries later, algebra and mathematics are everywhere in our lives, whether we see them or not. The Cambrian-like explosion of artificial intelligence (AI) brought numbers even closer to us all, since technological evolution allows for parallel processing of a vast amounts of operations.

Progressively, operations between scalars (numbers) were parallelized into operations between vectors, and subsequently, matrices. Multiplication between matrices now trends as the most time- and energy-demanding operation of contemporary AI computational systems...

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