Equation 1 · Part 5 · How Post-CMOS, Neuromorphic, Photonic, and Quantum AI Compute Actually Works
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What this part means
The expressions on both sides represent the same quantity under the stated assumptions.
Its job in the formula
The equals sign connects the complete expression on the left with the complete expression on the right. Both sides must have compatible units.
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The passage around this formula
An MZI mesh built this way implements a unitary matrix: a transformation that preserves the total optical power passing through it. Most matrices a neural-network layer actually needs are not unitary. The standard fix is a singular value decomposition, writing the desired matrix M as . where U and V* are unitary matrices, each realized by its own MZI mesh, and Σ is a diagonal matrix of non-negative singular values, realized by a bank of tunable optical attenuators placed between the two meshes. Light entering the chip passes through the first mesh, has each of its modes independently attenuated by the corresponding singular value, then passes through the second mesh — end…
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An equals sign says that the expression on its left and the expression on its right have the same value under the stated definitions and assumptions.
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