Echo state networks: appeal and challenges

• Published in: Proceedings. 2005 IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 2005 Vol. 3; pp. 1463 - 1466 vol. 3
• Main Author: Prokhorov, D.
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 2005
• Subjects: Backpropagation; Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions; Electronic mail; Histograms; Least squares approximation; Least squares methods; Output feedback; Recurrent neural networks; Reservoirs; Roads
• ISBN: 0780390482; 9780780390485
• ISSN: 2161-4393
• DOI: 10.1109/IJCNN.2005.1556091

The echo state network (ESN) has recently been proposed for modeling complex dynamic systems. The ESN is a sparsely connected recurrent neural network with most of its weights fixed a priori to randomly chosen values. The only trainable weights are those on links connected to the outputs. The ESN ca...