Noyce Conference Room
Seminar
  US Mountain Time
Speaker: 
Dan Gauthier

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Abstract: Reservoir computing is a best-in-class machine learning algorithm for processing information generated by dynamical systems using observed time-series data. Importantly, it requires very small training data sets, uses linear optimization, and thus requires minimal computing resources. However, the algorithm uses randomly sampled matrices to define the underlying recurrent neural network and has a multitude of metaparameters that must be optimized. Recent results demonstrate the equivalence of reservoir computing to nonlinear vector autoregression, which requires no random matrices, fewer metaparameters, and provides interpretable results. Here, I demonstrate that nonlinear vector autoregression excels at reservoir computing benchmark tasks and requires even shorter training data sets and training time, heralding the next generation of reservoir computing.  I will discuss application of this machine learning approach to a few real-world examples and future directions for extending this work.

Speaker

Dan GauthierDan GauthierProfessor of Physics and Electrical & Computer Engineering at Ohio State University
SFI Host: 
Yuanzhao Zhang

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