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Reservoir computing (RC) is a powerful framework for predicting nonlinear dynamical systems, yet the role of reservoir topology$-$particularly symmetry in connectivity and weights$-$remains not adequately understood. This work investigates…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-10 Shailendra K. Rathor , Lina Jaurigue , Martin Ziegler , Jörg Schumacher

The prediction of time series is a challenging task relevant in such diverse applications as analyzing financial data, forecasting flow dynamics or understanding biological processes. Especially chaotic time series that depend on a long…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Johannes Viehweg , Dominik Walther , Patrick Mäder

Reservoir computing, using nonlinear dynamical systems, offers a cost-effective alternative to neural networks for complex tasks involving processing of sequential data, time series modeling, and system identification. Echo state networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Peter J. Ehlers , Hendra I. Nurdin , Daniel Soh

This paper examines Echo State Network, a reservoir computer, performance using four different benchmark problems, then proposes heuristics or rules of thumb for configuring the architecture, as well as the selection of parameters and their…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Brooke R. Weborg , Gursel Serpen

Reservoir computing (RC) is a computational framework known for its training efficiency, making it ideal for physical hardware implementations. However, realizing the complex interconnectivity of traditional reservoirs in physical systems…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Smita Deb , Shirin Panahi , Mulugeta Haile , Ying-Cheng Lai

Many natural and physical processes can be understood by analyzing multiple system variables evolving, forming a multivariate time series. Predicting such time series is challenging due to the inherent noise and interdependencies among…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-11 S. Hariharan , R. Suresh , V. K. Chandrasekar

A reservoir computer is a complex nonlinear dynamical system that has been shown to be useful for solving certain problems, such as prediction of chaotic signals, speech recognition or control of robotic systems. Typically a reservoir…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-08-30 Thomas L. Carroll , Louis M. Pecora

Networks of nanowires are currently being explored for a range of applications in brain-like (or neuromorphic) computing, and especially in reservoir computing (RC). Fabrication of real-world computing devices requires that the nanowires…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-07-08 R. K. Daniels , J. B. Mallinson , Z. E. Heywood , P. J. Bones , M. D. Arnold , S. A. Brown

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

Reservoir computing is a recent trend in neural networks which uses the dynamical perturbations on the phase space of a system to compute a desired target function. We present how one can formulate an expectation of system performance in a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-09-02 Alireza Goudarzi , Darko Stefanovic

We show that connectivity within the high-dimensional recurrent layer of a reservoir network is crucial for its performance. To this end, we systematically investigate the impact of network connectivity on its performance, i.e., we examine…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Shailendra K. Rathor , Martin Ziegler , Jörg Schumacher

Reservoir Computing (RC) with physical systems requires an understanding of the underlying structure and internal dynamics of the specific physical reservoir. In this study, physical nano-electronic networks with neuromorphic dynamics are…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Yinhao Xu , Georg A. Gottwald , Zdenka Kuncic

Recurrent neural networks are used to forecast time series in finance, climate, language, and from many other domains. Reservoir computers are a particularly easily trainable form of recurrent neural network. Recently, a "next-generation"…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Sarah E. Marzen , Paul M. Riechers , James P. Crutchfield

Echo State Networks (ESN) are a class of Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) that has gained substantial popularity due to their effectiveness, ease of use and potential for compact hardware implementation. An ESN contains the three network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Luca Carcano , Emanuele Plebani , Danilo Pietro Pau , Marco Piastra

In this paper, the echo state network (ESN) memory capacity, which represents the amount of input data an ESN can store, is analyzed for a new type of deep ESNs. In particular, two deep ESN architectures are studied. First, a parallel deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Xuanlin Liu , Mingzhe Chen , Changchuan Yin , Walid Saad

This paper investigates the relationship between convolutional neural network (CNN) topology and image recognition performance through a comparative study of the VGG, ResNet, and GoogLeNet architectural families. Utilizing a unified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Manfred M. Fischer , Joshua Pitts

Reservoir computing (RC) can efficiently process time-series data by transferring the input signal to randomly connected recurrent neural networks (RNNs), which are referred to as a reservoir. The high-dimensional representation of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Yusuke Sakemi , Sou Nobukawa , Toshitaka Matsuki , Takashi Morie , Kazuyuki Aihara

Underwater acoustic (UWA) communications have been widely used but greatly impaired due to the complicated nature of the underwater environment. In order to improve UWA communications, modeling and understanding the UWA channel is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-31 Oluwaseyi Onasami , Ming Feng , Hao Xu , Mulugeta Haile , Lijun Qian

Reservoir computing is a machine learning paradigm that uses a high-dimensional dynamical system, or \emph{reservoir}, to approximate and predict time series data. The scale, speed and power usage of reservoir computers could be enhanced by…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Forrest C. Sheldon , Artemy Kolchinsky , Francesco Caravelli

Reservoir computers (RC) have proven useful as surrogate models in forecasting and replicating systems of chaotic dynamics. The quality of surrogate models based on RCs is crucially dependent on their optimal implementation that involves…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Pauliina Kärkkäinen , Riku Linna