Activation Stretching for Tackling Noise in Photonic Aware Neural Networks
Emilio Paolini, Lorenzo De Marinis, Luca Valcarenghi, Luca Maggiani, Nicola Andriolli · 2024
This paper introduces a stretching strategy for nonlinear activation functions aimed to enhance noise resilience in photonic-aware neural networks. Its effectiveness is numerically demonstrated in counteracting different noise levels in low-resolution operations.