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Reservoir computing is a machine learning approach that can generate a surrogate model of a dynamical system. It can learn the underlying dynamical system using fewer trainable parameters and hence smaller training data sets than competing…

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Learning-based methods have made significant progress in physics simulation, typically approximating dynamics with a monolithic end-to-end optimized neural network. Although these models offer an effective way to simulation, they may lose…

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Introduction. Reservoir Computing is a bio-inspired computing paradigm for processing time-dependent signals. The performance of its hardware implementation is comparable to state-of-the-art digital algorithms on a series of benchmark…

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Machine learning recently proved efficient in learning differential equations and dynamical systems from data. However, the data is commonly assumed to originate from a single never-changing system. In contrast, when modeling real-world…

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