We enhance the accuracy of a diffractive optical network through time-lapse-based inference, which exploits the information diversity obtained by introducing controlled or random displacements between the object and the diffractive network, relative to each other. The numerical blind testing accuracy achieved using this time-lapse-based inference scheme on CIFAR-10 images reached >62%, representing the highest accuracy achieved so far on this dataset using a single diffractive network. Beyond image classification, this framework could also open doors to broader utilization of diffractive networks in tasks involving all-optical spatiotemporal information processing, paving the way for advanced visual computing paradigms.
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