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Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) have demonstrated their outstanding ability in sequence tasks and have achieved state-of-the-art in wide range of applications, such as industrial, medical, economic and linguistic. Echo State Network (ESN)…

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Temporal data modelling techniques with neural networks are useful in many domain applications, including time-series forecasting and control engineering. This paper aims at developing a recurrent version of stochastic configuration…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Dianhui Wang , Gang Dang

An Echo State Network (ESN) is a type of single-layer recurrent neural network with randomly-chosen internal weights and a trainable output layer. We prove under mild conditions that a sufficiently large Echo State Network can approximate…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-06-28 Allen G. Hart , Kevin R. Olding , A. M. G. Cox , Olga Isupova , J. H. P. Dawes

In reservoir computing, an input sequence is processed by a recurrent neural network, the reservoir, which transforms it into a spatial pattern that a shallow readout network can then exploit for tasks such as memorization and time-series…

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The study of deep recurrent neural networks (RNNs) and, in particular, of deep Reservoir Computing (RC) is gaining an increasing research attention in the neural networks community. The recently introduced Deep Echo State Network (DeepESN)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-28 Claudio Gallicchio , Alessio Micheli

The unprecedented dissemination of edge devices is accompanied by a growing demand for neuromorphic chips that can process time-series data natively without cloud support. Echo state network (ESN) is a class of recurrent neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Abdullah M. Zyarah , Alaa M. Abdul-Hadi , Dhireesha Kudithipudi

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

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) have drawn interest from machine learning researchers because of their effectiveness at preserving past inputs for time-varying data processing tasks. To understand the success and limitations of RNNs, it is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-30 Adam Charles , Dong Yin , Christopher Rozell

In this paper, we elaborate over the well-known interpretability issue in echo state networks. The idea is to investigate the dynamics of reservoir neurons with time-series analysis techniques taken from research on complex systems.…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2016-11-21 Filippo Maria Bianchi , Lorenzo Livi , Cesare Alippi

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 (ESN), a type of reservoir computing (RC) architecture, are efficient and accurate artificial neural systems for time series processing and learning. An ESN consists of a core of recurrent neural networks, called a…

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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

Echo State Networks (ESNs) are widely-used Recurrent Neural Networks. They are dynamical systems including, in state-space form, a nonlinear state equation and a linear output transformation. The common procedure to train ESNs is to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-05 Luca Bugliari Armenio , Lorenzo Fagiano , Enrico Terzi , Marcello Farina , Riccardo Scattolini

Echo State Networks (ESNs) are recurrent neural networks that only train their output layer, thereby precluding the need to backpropagate gradients through time, which leads to significant computational gains. Nevertheless, a common issue…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-13 Jacob Reinier Maat , Nikos Gianniotis , Pavlos Protopapas

We propose an innovative design for an optical Echo State Network (ESN), an advanced type of reservoir computer known for its universal computational capabilities. Our design enables an optical implementation of arbitrary ESNs, featuring…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-17 Ishwar S Kaushik , Peter J Ehlers , Daniel Soh

As an efficient recurrent neural network (RNN) model, reservoir computing (RC) models, such as Echo State Networks, have attracted widespread attention in the last decade. However, while they have had great success with time series data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-16 Qianli Ma , Lifeng Shen , Garrison W. Cottrell

What is a neural model with minimum architectural complexity that exhibits reasonable language learning capability? To explore such a simple but sufficient neural language model, we revisit a basic reservoir computing (RC) model, Echo State…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Ryo Ueda , Tatsuki Kuribayashi , Shunsuke Kando , Kentaro Inui

Machine learning (ML) is widely used to model chaotic systems. Among ML approaches, echo state networks (ESNs) have received considerable attention due to their simple construction and fast training. However, ESN performance is highly…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-09 Francesco Martinuzzi

Echo State Networks (ESNs) are a class of single-layer recurrent neural networks with randomly generated internal weights, and a single layer of tuneable outer weights, which are usually trained by regularised linear least squares…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Allen G Hart , James L Hook , Jonathan H P Dawes

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