We show that spectral mapping of data onto femtosecond optical pulses and a projection into an implicit, higher dimensional space using nonlinear optical transformation of data reduces the latency in data classification by several orders of magnitude. The approach is validated by the classification of various datasets, including brain intracranial pressure, cancer cell imaging, spoken digit recognition, and the classic Exclusive OR (XOR) benchmark for nonlinear classification. Single-shot operation is demonstrated using time stretch data acquisition. Due to the modest degrees of freedom in the optical domain, the classification accuracy is data-dependent.
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