Photonic reservoir computing with complex networks

arXiv:2607.23285v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Photonic reservoir computing has attracted increasing attention as a fast and low-cost approach for time-series prediction. Photonic reservoir computing utilizes the high speed, broad bandwidth, and spatial parallelism of light. However, the effect of the internal connection structure (network topology) on the computing performance has not been investigated for large-scale photonic reservoirs. In this study, we experimentally and numerically demonstrate photonic reservoir computing using a spatial light modulator to systematically evaluate the relationship between the network topology and the performance of reservoir computing. We introduce complex network structures such as small-world and scale-free network topologies of the internal nodes in the reservoir. We perform the memory capacity measurement and the one-step-ahead prediction task of the chaotic time series to compare the performance. We found that the small-world network exhibits the maximum memory capacity and the best prediction performance. Our numerical calculations reveal that the performance of the time-series prediction can be optimized by changing the rewiring probability of the network and the leak rate of the reservoir. We also implement photonic human brain network as a reservoir, which is designed by the connectomes of human brain activities. We found that the network topology strongly affects the performance of reservoir computing, and the small-world network structure outperforms the other configurations.

Abstract:Photonic reservoir computing has attracted increasing attention as a fast and low-cost approach for time-series prediction. Photonic reservoir computing utilizes the high speed, broad bandwidth, and spatial parallelism of light. However, the effect of the internal connection structure (network topology) on the computing performance has not been investigated for large-scale photonic reservoirs. In this study, we experimentally and numerically demonstrate photonic reservoir computing using a spatial light modulator to systematically evaluate the relationship between the network topology and the performance of reservoir computing. We introduce complex network structures such as small-world and scale-free network topologies of the internal nodes in the reservoir. We perform the memory capacity measurement and the one-step-ahead prediction task of the chaotic time series to compare the performance. We found that the small-world network exhibits the maximum memory capacity and the best prediction performance. Our numerical calculations reveal that the performance of the time-series prediction can be optimized by changing the rewiring probability of the network and the leak rate of the reservoir. We also implement photonic human brain network as a reservoir, which is designed by the connectomes of human brain activities. We found that the network topology strongly affects the performance of reservoir computing, and the small-world network structure outperforms the other configurations.

Optics (physics.optics); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)

arXiv:2607.23285 [physics.optics]

(or arXiv:2607.23285v1 [physics.optics] for this version)

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