Boosting learning ability of overdamped bistable stochastic resonance system based physical reservoir computing model by time-delayed feedback

Zhuozheng Shi, Zhiqiang Liao and Hitoshi Tabata

Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2022, vol. 161, issue C

Abstract: Physical reservoir computing (RC), which can be implemented by various physical systems, is a low-cost neuromorphic framework with a fast learning capability. In the previous studies, an overdamped bistable system-based RC (OBRC) inspired by the FitzHugh-Nagumo neuron model has been proposed to construct an outstanding physical RC system. Benefitting from the stochastic resonance effect, the OBRC requires less power and has stronger noise robustness than many conventional physical RC systems. However, compared with conventional physical RC systems, its learning ability is not superior. To boost the performance of the OBRC, we propose an OBRC with time-delayed feedback (TOBRC). In this work, the TOBRC is implemented in a physical setting with time-multiplexing nodes design and simulated on a conventional computer. Moreover, we adopt a powerful optimization algorithm to automatically determine the optimal hyperparameters for both the OBRC and TOBRC; thus, a more precise quantitative discussion on the upper limit of the system can be made. To compare the TOBRC and OBRC, we conducted short-term memory and parity check tasks to assess the short-term memory ability and nonlinearity, which are the two core abilities of physical RC for learning. The results prove that the short-term memory ability and nonlinearity of the proposed TOBRC are 6.46 and 2.15 times higher than those of the OBRC, respectively. Moreover, the TOBRC outperforms the OBRC under different noise conditions. On the MNIST handwritten digit recognition benchmark, the TOBRC exhibited a lower error rate than the OBRC; it was comparable with that of advanced physical RC systems. Our study confirms that the TOBRC can exhibit excellent learning ability in practical problems.

Keywords: Reservoir computing; Short-term memory ability; Overdamped bistable system; Stochastic resonance; Time-delayed feedback (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.chaos.2022.112314

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