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Echo state networks are powerful recurrent neural networks. However, they are often unstable and shaky, making the process of finding an good ESN for a specific dataset quite hard. Obtaining a superb accuracy by using the Echo State Network…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-22 Qiuyi Wu , Ernest Fokoue , Dhireesha Kudithipudi

This article introduces a robust hybrid method for solving supervised learning tasks, which uses the Echo State Network (ESN) model and the Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm. An ESN is a Recurrent Neural Network with the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-01-05 Sebastián Basterrech , Enrique Alba , Václav Snášel

The Echo State Network (ESN) is a specific recurrent network, which has gained popularity during the last years. The model has a recurrent network named reservoir, that is fixed during the learning process. The reservoir is used for…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-03-21 Sebastián Basterrech

Echo State Networks (ESNs) are simplified recurrent neural network models composed of a reservoir and a linear, trainable readout layer. The reservoir is tunable by some hyper-parameters that control the network behaviour. ESNs are known to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Pietro Verzelli , Lorenzo Livi , Cesare Alippi

The paper introduces concentric Echo State Network, an approach to design reservoir topologies that tries to bridge the gap between deterministically constructed simple cycle models and deep reservoir computing approaches. We show how to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-24 Davide Bacciu , Andrea Bongiorno

Echo State Network (ESN) presents a distinguished kind of recurrent neural networks. It is built upon a sparse, random and large hidden infrastructure called reservoir. ESNs have succeeded in dealing with several non-linear problems such as…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Naima Chouikhi , Boudour Ammar , Adel M. Alimi

We introduce a diagonalization-based optimization for Linear Echo State Networks (ESNs) that reduces the per-step computational complexity of reservoir state updates from O(N^2) to O(N). By reformulating reservoir dynamics in the eigenbasis…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Romain de Coudenhove , Yannis Bendi-Ouis , Anthony Strock , Xavier Hinaut

Echo State Networks (ESNs) are a class of single layer recurrent neural networks that have enjoyed recent attention. In this paper we prove that a suitable ESN, trained on a series of measurements of an invertible dynamical system, induces…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2020-05-19 Allen G Hart , James L Hook , Jonathan H P Dawes

While Large Language Models and their underlying Transformer architecture are remarkably efficient, they do not reflect how our brain processes and learns a diversity of cognitive tasks such as language, nor how it leverages working memory.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Yannis Bendi-Ouis , Xavier Hinaut

Echo State Networks (ESNs) are a special type of the temporally deep network model, the Recurrent Neural Network (RNN), where the recurrent matrix is carefully designed and both the recurrent and input matrices are fixed. An ESN uses the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-11-14 Hamid Palangi , Li Deng , Rabab K Ward

Echo State Networks (ESNs) are a special type of recurrent neural networks (RNNs), in which the input and recurrent connections are traditionally generated randomly, and only the output weights are trained. Despite the recent success of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Peter Steiner , Azarakhsh Jalalvand , Peter Birkholz

Echo-State Networks and Reservoir Computing have been studied for more than a decade. They provide a simpler yet powerful alternative to Recurrent Neural Networks, every internal weight is fixed and only the last linear layer is trained.…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Jonathan Dong , Sylvain Gigan , Florent Krzakala , Gilles Wainrib

We identify a noise model that ensures the functioning of an echo state network employing a gate-based quantum computer for reservoir computing applications. Energy dissipation induced by amplitude damping drastically improves the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-24 Francesco Monzani , Emanuele Ricci , Luca Nigro , Enrico Prati

The goal of this paper is to investigate the theoretical properties, the training algorithm, and the predictive control applications of Echo State Networks (ESNs), a particular kind of Recurrent Neural Networks. First, a condition…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-02-06 Luca Bugliari Armenio , Enrico Terzi , Marcello Farina , Riccardo Scattolini

Reservoir Computing (RC) has established itself as an efficient paradigm for temporal processing. However, its scalability remains severely constrained by (i) the necessity of processing temporal data sequentially and (ii) the prohibitive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Matteo Pinna , Giacomo Lagomarsini , Andrea Ceni , Claudio Gallicchio

A recurrent neural network (RNN) possesses the echo state property (ESP) if, for a given input sequence, it ``forgets'' any internal states of the driven (nonautonomous) system and asymptotically follows a unique, possibly complex…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-06-26 Andrea Ceni , Peter Ashwin , Lorenzo Livi , Claire Postlethwaite

Echo-State Networks (ESNs) distil a key neurobiological insight: richly recurrent but fixed circuitry combined with adaptive linear read-outs can transform temporal streams with remarkable efficiency. Yet fundamental questions about…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Pradeep Singh , Lavanya Sankaranarayanan , Balasubramanian Raman

Reconfiguration has been used for both defect- and fault-tolerant nanoscale architectures with regular structure. Recent advances in self-assembled nanowires have opened doors to a new class of electronic devices with irregular structure.…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2014-06-16 Alireza Goudarzi , Matthew R. Lakin , Darko Stefanovic , Christof Teuscher

Inspired by the numerical solution of ordinary differential equations, in this paper we propose a novel Reservoir Computing (RC) model, called the Euler State Network (EuSN). The presented approach makes use of forward Euler discretization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Claudio Gallicchio

Reservoir computing (RC) is a novel approach to time series prediction using recurrent neural networks. In RC, an input signal perturbs the intrinsic dynamics of a medium called a reservoir. A readout layer is then trained to reconstruct a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-01-13 Alireza Goudarzi , Peter Banda , Matthew R. Lakin , Christof Teuscher , Darko Stefanovic