Residual Reservoir Memory Networks
Abstract
We introduce a novel class of untrained Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) within the Reservoir Computing (RC) paradigm, called Residual Reservoir Memory Networks (ResRMNs). ResRMN combines a linear memory reservoir with a non-linear reservoir, where the latter is based on residual orthogonal connections along the temporal dimension for enhanced long-term propagation of the input. The resulting reservoir state dynamics are studied through the lens of linear stability analysis, and we investigate diverse configurations for the temporal residual connections. The proposed approach is empirically assessed on time-series and pixel-level 1-D classification tasks. Our experimental results highlight the advantages of the proposed approach over other conventional RC models.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2508.09925,
title = {Residual Reservoir Memory Networks},
author = {Matteo Pinna and Andrea Ceni and Claudio Gallicchio},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.09925},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
7 pages, 6 figures, accepted at IJCNN 2025; added IEEE copyright