Photonics-Enhanced Graph Convolutional Networks

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2512.15549v1
• Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2025 15:55:45 GMT
• Title: Photonics-Enhanced Graph Convolutional Networks
• Authors: Yuan Wang, Oleksandr Kyriienko,
• Abstract summary: photonic positional embeddings (PEs) are used to augment graph convolutional networks (GCNs)<n>We introduce a photonics-based method that augments graph convolutional networks (GCNs) with PEs derived from light propagation on synthetic frequency lattices whose couplings match the input graph.<n>Our results show that photonic PEs improve GCN performance and support optical acceleration of graph ML.
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• Abstract: Photonics can offer a hardware-native route for machine learning (ML). However, efficient deployment of photonics-enhanced ML requires hybrid workflows that integrate optical processing with conventional CPU/GPU based neural network architectures. Here, we propose such a workflow that combines photonic positional embeddings (PEs) with advanced graph ML models. We introduce a photonics-based method that augments graph convolutional networks (GCNs) with PEs derived from light propagation on synthetic frequency lattices whose couplings match the input graph. We simulate propagation and readout to obtain internode intensity correlation matrices, which are used as PEs in GCNs to provide global structural information. Evaluated on Long Range Graph Benchmark molecular datasets, the method outperforms baseline GCNs with Laplacian based PEs, achieving $6.3\%$ lower mean absolute error for regression and $2.3\%$ higher average precision for classification tasks using a two-layer GCN as a baseline. When implemented in high repetition rate photonic hardware, correlation measurements can enable fast feature generation by bypassing digital simulation of PEs. Our results show that photonic PEs improve GCN performance and support optical acceleration of graph ML.

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