Overview of Reservoir Recipes

Echo State Networks (ESNs) and Liquid State Machines (LSMs) introduced a simple new paradigm in artificial recurrent neural network (RNN) training, where an RNN (the reservoir) is generated randomly and only a readout is trained. The paradigm, becoming known as reservoir computing, made RNNs accessible for practical applications as never before and outperformed classical fully trained RNNs in many tasks. The latter, however, does not imply that...