Echo state network - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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The echo state network (ESN) is a recurrent neural network with a sparsely connected hidden layer (with typically 1% connectivity). The connectivity and weights of hidden neurons are randomly assigned and are fixed. The weights of output neurons can be learned so that the network can (re)produce specific temporal patterns.

An overview of reservoir computing: theory, applications and implementations

https://www.elen.ucl.ac.be/Proceedings/esann/esannpdf/es2007-8.pdf

This tutorial will give an overview of current research on theory, application and implementations of Reservoir Computing.