Un-0: Generating Images with Coupled Oscillators

When I first learned about computer science at the age of 11 or so (and in 1982 or so) the first page of the text book put digital and analogue computers on what seemed to be an equal footing. And then proceeded to ignore the latter for the rest of the book. Apart from a few notable exceptions ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillips_Machine ) I've often wondered about analogue computing.

Very cool work - refreshing to see a of different approach. I learned about Kuramoto oscillators many years ago from a book called Sync, by Steven Strogatz, which I highly recommend.

It’s not clear to me how this would ever be practical since it seems dependent on n^2 scaling.

You’ve got to wonder when you have an image generation demo why would you possibly have 64 x 64 pixel output as your demo?

If I’m understanding this properly to generate a 4K image, you need like 5 trillion point to point connections on the chip. Even if power use from the oscillators is zero that’s going to be an issue.

Really interesting - if I understood the article correctly, they're simulating this on conventional hardware, so in order to get the proposed benefits, it would need to be implemented in some other electronic medium.

This kind of reminds me of DCT in lossy image compression, but in reverse.

This method is cool and the post explains it well. It would, however, be good to get more detail on the energy efficiency they flag as their motivation: is this model actually more energy efficient than the comparators they highlight?

Readers care, this requires a nice amount of physics knowledge to really understand. Not too advanced but still, physics.

> However, the trade-off with our approach is that it requires a more complex loss that operates given only generated samples.