Evolving reservoir weights in the frequency domain
Sebastián Basterrech, Gerardo Rubino · Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion · 2021
Reservoir Computing models are a class of recurrent neural networks that have enjoyed recent attention, in particular, their main family, Echo State Networks (ESNs). These models have a large number of hidden-hidden weights (in the so-called reservoir) forming a recurrent topology. The reservoir is randomly connected with fixed weights during learning: only readout parameters (from reservoir to output neurons) are trained; the reservoir weights are frozen after initialized. Since the reservoir structure is fixed during learning, only its initialization process has an impact on the model's performance.