[stochastic_monk]

By performing these transformations optically, they primarily get data parallelism (like [GTV]PUs). I expect this to happen. NVIDIA’s ACDC paper provides an FFT-accelerated neural network layer (similar to deep-fried convnets), with an offhand remark that the transformations could be performed optically. I wonder what kind of information bandwidth they can get, though.

[dekhn]

Physicists were using optical lenses to do approximate FFTs over a hundred years ago.