# Efficient Design of Hardware-Enabled Reservoir Computing in FPGAs

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.03033 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1805.03033/

## Key facts

- Cited by 5 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 4 May 2018.

## Built on by (most cited first, 5 of 5)

- [Analogue and Physical Reservoir Computing Using Water Waves](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2306.09095/) (2023)
- [Learning Reservoir Dynamics with Temporal Self-Modulation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2301.09235/) (2023)
- [Reservoir Computing with a Single Oscillating Gas Bubble: Emphasizing the Chaotic Regime](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2504.07221/) (2025)
- [Critical nonlinear aspects of hopping transport for reconfigurable logic in disordered dopant networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2312.16037/) (2023)
- [Direct Spatial Implementation of Sparse Matrix Multipliers for Reservoir Computing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2101.08884/) (2021)

## Abstract (arXiv)

In this work, we propose a new approach towards the efficient optimization and implementation of reservoir computing hardware reducing the required domain expert knowledge and optimization effort. First, we adapt the reservoir input mask to the structure of the data via linear autoencoders. We therefore incorporate the advantages of dimensionality reduction and dimensionality expansion achieved by conventional algorithmically efficient linear algebra procedures of principal component analysis. Second, we employ evolutionary-inspired genetic algorithm techniques resulting in a highly efficient optimization of reservoir dynamics with dramatically reduced number of evaluations comparing to exhaustive search. We illustrate the method on the so-called single-node reservoir computing architecture, especially suitable for implementation in ultrahigh-speed hardware. The combination of both methods and the resulting reduction of time required for performance optimization of a hardware system establish a strategy towards machine learning hardware capable of self-adaption to optimally solve specific problems. We confirm the validity of those principles building reservoir computing hardware based on a field-programmable gate array.