First public release of ATOM — a numerically verified simulation
showing that transformer attention can be computed exactly through
optical wave interference in a holographic crystal.
What's in this release:
- Exact proof that wave interference is equal to scaled dot-product attention,
verified to floating-point precision - Full differentiable simulator: Angular Spectrum Method propagation,
trainable phase masks, interference-based attention - Architecture projections: capacity, latency, energy vs H100
- Validation suite: all checks pass with margin
The math is proved. The hardware doesn't exist yet.
Run the validation: python scripts/run_all.py