A linear optical frontend improves classification at a small sensor bottleneck through coherent, nonlocal field mixing, producing quadratic features that can outperform a trained linear preprocessor.
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What should a linear optical frontend compute? Assessing the role of meta-optics, nonlocality, and coherence in hybrid inference systems
A linear optical frontend improves classification at a small sensor bottleneck through coherent, nonlocal field mixing, producing quadratic features that can outperform a trained linear preprocessor.