Initializing reservoirs with exhibitory and inhibitory signals using unsupervised learning techniques
Sebastián Basterrech, Václav Snåšel · 2013
The trend of Reservoir Computing (RC) has been gaining prominence in the Neural Computation community since the 2000s. In a RC model there are at least two well-differentiated structures. One is a recurrent part called reservoir, which expands the input data and historical information into a high-dimensional space. This projection is carried out in order to enhance the linear separability of the input data. Another part is a memory-less structure designed to be robust and fast in the learning process. RC models are an alternative of Turing Machines and Recurrent Neural Networks to model cognitive processing in the neural system. Additionally, they are interesting Machine Learning tools to Time Series Modeling and Forecasting.