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The Echo State Network (ESN) is a class of Recurrent Neural Network with a large number of hidden-hidden weights (in the so-called reservoir). Canonical ESN and its variations have recently received significant attention due to their…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Sebastian Basterrech , Gerardo Rubino

Inspired by recent theoretical arguments, physics-informed echo state network (ESN) is discussed on the attempt to train a reservoir model absolutely in physics-informed manner. As the plainest work on such a purpose, an ODE (ordinary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Dong Keun Oh

The notion of memory capacity, originally introduced for echo state and linear networks with independent inputs, is generalized to nonlinear recurrent networks with stationary but dependent inputs. The presence of dependence in the inputs…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-28 Lukas Gonon , Lyudmila Grigoryeva , Juan-Pablo Ortega

We propose an approximation of Echo State Networks (ESN) that can be efficiently implemented on digital hardware based on the mathematics of hyperdimensional computing. The reservoir of the proposed integer Echo State Network (intESN) is a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Denis Kleyko , E. Paxon Frady , Mansour Kheffache , Evgeny Osipov

The fading-memory (FM) property captures the progressive loss of influence of past inputs on a system's current output and has originally been formalized by Boyd and Chua in an operator-theoretic framework. Despite its importance for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-27 Gustave Bainier , Antoine Chaillet , Rodolphe Sepulchre , Alessio Franci

Echo State Networks (ESNs) are a particular type of untrained Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) within the Reservoir Computing (RC) framework, popular for their fast and efficient learning. However, traditional ESNs often struggle with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Matteo Pinna , Andrea Ceni , Claudio Gallicchio

We prove two universal approximation theorems for a range of dropout neural networks. These are feed-forward neural networks in which each edge is given a random $\{0,1\}$-valued filter, that have two modes of operation: in the first each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Oxana A. Manita , Mark A. Peletier , Jacobus W. Portegies , Jaron Sanders , Albert Senen-Cerda

Universal approximation theorems are the foundations of classical neural networks, providing theoretical guarantees that the latter are able to approximate maps of interest. Recent results have shown that this can also be achieved in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-14 Lukas Gonon , Antoine Jacquier

Invertible neural networks based on coupling flows (CF-INNs) have various machine learning applications such as image synthesis and representation learning. However, their desirable characteristics such as analytic invertibility come at the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Takeshi Teshima , Isao Ishikawa , Koichi Tojo , Kenta Oono , Masahiro Ikeda , Masashi Sugiyama

In this chapter we take a look at the universal approximation question for stochastic feedforward neural networks. In contrast to deterministic networks, which represent mappings from a set of inputs to a set of outputs, stochastic networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Thomas Merkh , Guido Montúfar

This work joins aspects of reservoir optimization, information-theoretic optimal encoding, and at its center fractal analysis. We build on the observation that, due to the recursive nature of recurrent neural networks, input sequences…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Norbert Michael Mayer , Oliver Obst

Several topological and analytical notions of continuity and fading memory for causal and time-invariant filters are introduced, and the relations between them are analyzed. A significant generalization of the convolution theorem that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-04 Juan-Pablo Ortega , Florian Rossmannek

Fourier neural operators (FNOs) have recently been proposed as an effective framework for learning operators that map between infinite-dimensional spaces. We prove that FNOs are universal, in the sense that they can approximate any…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-21 Nikola Kovachki , Samuel Lanthaler , Siddhartha Mishra

We consider a fading wiretap channel model where the transmitter has only statistical channel state information, and the legitimate receiver and eavesdropper have perfect channel state information. We propose a sequence of non-random…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Laura Luzzi , Cong Ling , Roope Vehkalahti

We study the propagation and distribution of information-carrying signals injected in dynamical systems serving as a reservoir computers. A multivariate correlation analysis in tailored replica tests reveals consistency spectra and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-05-31 Thomas Jüngling , Thomas Lymburn , Michael Small

We establish the potential of continuous-variable Gaussian states of linear dynamical systems for machine learning tasks. Specifically, we consider reservoir computing, an efficient framework for online time series processing. As a…

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

The universal approximation theorem is generalised to uniform convergence on the (noncompact) input space $\mathbb{R}^n$. All continuous functions that vanish at infinity can be uniformly approximated by neural networks with one hidden…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Teun D. H. van Nuland

Leveraging the infinite dimensional neural network architecture we proposed in arXiv:2109.13512v4 and which can process inputs from Fr\'echet spaces, and using the universal approximation property shown therein, we now largely extend the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-14 Luca Galimberti

It is well known that Artificial Neural Networks are universal approximators. The classical result proves that, given a continuous function on a compact set on an n-dimensional space, then there exists a one-hidden-layer feedforward network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Rocio Gonzalez-Diaz , Miguel A. Gutiérrez-Naranjo , Eduardo Paluzo-Hidalgo