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ArticleFrontiers in physiology2021

Optimizing Reservoir Computers for Signal Classification.

Thomas L Carroll

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Article in Frontiers in physiology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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  3. Stochastic reservoir computers.Nature communications · 2025
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  5. Tipping Point Detection Using Reservoir Computing.Research (Washington, D.C.) · 2023
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Thomas L CarrollUS Naval Research Lab, Washington, DC, United States.

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Abstract

Reservoir computers are a type of recurrent neural network for which the network connections are not changed. To train the reservoir computer, a set of output signals from the network are fit to a training signal by a linear fit. As a result, training of a reservoir computer is fast, and reservoir computers may be built from analog hardware, resulting in high speed and low power consumption. To get the best performance from a reservoir computer, the hyperparameters of the reservoir computer must be optimized. In signal classification problems, parameter optimization may be computationally difficult; it is necessary to compare many realizations of the test signals to get good statistics on the classification probability. In this work, it is shown in both a spiking reservoir computer and a reservoir computer using continuous variables that the optimum classification performance occurs for the hyperparameters that maximize the entropy of the reservoir computer. Optimizing for entropy only requires a single realization of each signal to be classified, making the process much faster to compute.

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machine learningneuromorphicneuronnonlinear dynamicsreservoir computer

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PMID34220549
PMCPMC8249854

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