Reservoir computing is a potential neuromorphic paradigm for promoting future disruptive applications in the era of the Internet of Things,owing to its well-known low training cost and compatibility with hardware.It h...Reservoir computing is a potential neuromorphic paradigm for promoting future disruptive applications in the era of the Internet of Things,owing to its well-known low training cost and compatibility with hardware.It has been successfully implemented by injecting an input signal into a spatially extended reservoir of nonlinear nodes or a temporally extended reservoir of a delayed feedback system to perform temporal information processing.Here we propose a novel nondelay-based reservoir computer using only a single micromechanical resonator with hybrid nonlinear dynamics that removes the usually required delayed feedback loop.The hybrid nonlinear dynamics of the resonator comprise a transient nonlinear response,and a Duffing nonlinear response is first used for reservoir computing.Due to the richness of this nonlinearity,the usually required delayed feedback loop can be omitted.To further simplify and improve the efficiency of reservoir computing,a self-masking process is utilized in our novel reservoir computer.Specifically,we numerically and experimentally demonstrate its excellent performance,and our system achieves a high recognition accuracy of 93%on a handwritten digit recognition benchmark and a normalized mean square error of 0.051 in a nonlinear autoregressive moving average task,which reveals its memory capacity.Furthermore,it also achieves 97.17±1%accuracy on an actual human motion gesture classification task constructed from a six-axis IMU sensor.These remarkable results verify the feasibility of our system and open up a new pathway for the hardware implementation of reservoir computing.展开更多
基金the National Key Research and Development Program of China(Grant No.2018YFB2002300)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.61971399)the Key Research Program of Frontier Science(CAS,Grant No.ZDBS-LY-JSC028).
文摘Reservoir computing is a potential neuromorphic paradigm for promoting future disruptive applications in the era of the Internet of Things,owing to its well-known low training cost and compatibility with hardware.It has been successfully implemented by injecting an input signal into a spatially extended reservoir of nonlinear nodes or a temporally extended reservoir of a delayed feedback system to perform temporal information processing.Here we propose a novel nondelay-based reservoir computer using only a single micromechanical resonator with hybrid nonlinear dynamics that removes the usually required delayed feedback loop.The hybrid nonlinear dynamics of the resonator comprise a transient nonlinear response,and a Duffing nonlinear response is first used for reservoir computing.Due to the richness of this nonlinearity,the usually required delayed feedback loop can be omitted.To further simplify and improve the efficiency of reservoir computing,a self-masking process is utilized in our novel reservoir computer.Specifically,we numerically and experimentally demonstrate its excellent performance,and our system achieves a high recognition accuracy of 93%on a handwritten digit recognition benchmark and a normalized mean square error of 0.051 in a nonlinear autoregressive moving average task,which reveals its memory capacity.Furthermore,it also achieves 97.17±1%accuracy on an actual human motion gesture classification task constructed from a six-axis IMU sensor.These remarkable results verify the feasibility of our system and open up a new pathway for the hardware implementation of reservoir computing.
