Paper ID: 2112.06098

CHAMP: Coherent Hardware-Aware Magnitude Pruning of Integrated Photonic Neural Networks

Sanmitra Banerjee, Mahdi Nikdast, Sudeep Pasricha, Krishnendu Chakrabarty

We propose a novel hardware-aware magnitude pruning technique for coherent photonic neural networks. The proposed technique can prune 99.45% of network parameters and reduce the static power consumption by 98.23% with a negligible accuracy loss.

Submitted: Dec 11, 2021