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Deep Neural Network-aided Soft-Demapping in Optical Coherent Systems: Regression versus Classification by Freire, Pedro J.; Prilepsky, Jaroslaw E.; Osadchuk, Yevhenii; Turitsyn, Sergei K.; Aref, Vahid is a scholarly article available to read on EtoBox.

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We examine here what type of predictive modelling, classification, or regression, using neural networks (NN), fits better the task of soft-demapping based post-processing in coherent optical communications, where the transmission channel is nonlinear and dispersive. For the first time, we present possible drawbacks in using each type of predictive task in a machine learning context, considering the nonlinear coherent optical channel equalization/soft-demapping problem. We study two types of equalizers based on the feed-forward and recurrent NNs, for several transmission scenarios, in linear and nonlinear regimes of the optical channel. We point out that even though from the information theory perspective the cross-entropy loss (classification) is the most suitable option for our problem, the NN models based on the cross-entropy loss function can severely suffer from learning problems. The latter translates into the fact that regression-based learning is typically superior in terms of delivering higher Q-factor and achievable information rates. In short, we show by empirical evidence that loss functions based on cross-entropy may not be necessarily the most suitable option for train

Author

Freire, Pedro J.; Prilepsky, Jaroslaw E.; Osadchuk, Yevhenii; Turitsyn, Sergei K.; Aref, Vahid

Published

2021

Language

EN