Knowledge Distillation Applied to Optical Channel Equalization: Solving the Parallelization Problem of Recurrent Connection
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Sasipim Srivallapanondh, Pedro J. Freire, Bernhard Spinnler, Nelson Costa, Antonio Napoli, Sergei K. Turitsyn, Jaroslaw E. Prilepsky
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To circumvent the non-parallelizability of recurrent neural network-based equalizers, we propose knowledge distillation to recast the RNN into a parallelizable feedforward structure. The latter shows 38\% latency decrease, while impacting the Q-factor by only 0.5dB.