Adapting reservoirs to get Gaussian distributions
David Verstraeten, Benjamin Schrauwen, Dirk Stroobandt · Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University) · 2007
Abstract. We present an online adaptation rule for reservoirs that is inspired by Intrinsic Plasiticity (IP). The IP rule maximizes the information content of the reservoir state by adapting it so that the distribution approximates a given target. Here we fix the variance of the target distribution, which results in a Gaussian distribution. We apply the rule to two tasks with quite different temporal and computational characteristics. 1