Principled neuromorphic reservoir computing

Denis Kleyko (), Christopher J. Kymn, Anthony Thomas, Bruno A. Olshausen, Friedrich T. Sommer () and E. Paxon Frady
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Denis Kleyko: Örebro University
Christopher J. Kymn: University of California
Anthony Thomas: University of California
Bruno A. Olshausen: University of California
Friedrich T. Sommer: University of California
E. Paxon Frady: Intel

Nature Communications, 2025, vol. 16, issue 1, 1-15

Abstract: Abstract Reservoir computing advances the intriguing idea that a nonlinear recurrent neural circuit—the reservoir—can encode spatio-temporal input signals to enable efficient ways to perform tasks like classification or regression. However, recently the idea of a monolithic reservoir network that simultaneously buffers input signals and expands them into nonlinear features has been challenged. A representation scheme in which memory buffer and expansion into higher-order polynomial features can be configured separately has been shown to significantly outperform traditional reservoir computing in prediction of multivariate time-series. Here we propose a configurable neuromorphic representation scheme that provides competitive performance on prediction, but with significantly better scaling properties than directly materializing higher-order features as in prior work. Our approach combines the use of randomized representations from traditional reservoir computing with mathematical principles for approximating polynomial kernels via such representations. While the memory buffer can be realized with standard reservoir networks, computing higher-order features requires networks of ‘Sigma-Pi’ neurons, i.e., neurons that enable both summation as well as multiplication of inputs. Finally, we provide an implementation of the memory buffer and Sigma-Pi networks on Loihi 2, an existing neuromorphic hardware platform.

Date: 2025
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