Towards pattern generation and chaotic series prediction with photonic reservoir computers

Piotr Antonik; Michiel Hermans; François Duport; Marc Haelterman; Serge Massar

doi:10.1117/12.2210948

9 March 2016 Towards pattern generation and chaotic series prediction with photonic reservoir computers

Piotr Antonik, Michiel Hermans, François Duport, Marc Haelterman, Serge Massar

Proceedings Volume 9732, Real-time Measurements, Rogue Events, and Emerging Applications; 97320B (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2210948
Event: SPIE LASE, 2016, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Reservoir Computing is a bio-inspired computing paradigm for processing time dependent signals that is particularly well suited for analog implementations. Our team has demonstrated several photonic reservoir computers with performance comparable to digital algorithms on a series of benchmark tasks such as channel equalisation and speech recognition. Recently, we showed that our opto-electronic reservoir computer could be trained online with a simple gradient descent algorithm programmed on an FPGA chip. This setup makes it in principle possible to feed the output signal back into the reservoir, and thus highly enrich the dynamics of the system. This will allow to tackle complex prediction tasks in hardware, such as pattern generation and chaotic and financial series prediction, which have so far only been studied in digital implementations. Here we report simulation results of our opto-electronic setup with an FPGA chip and output feedback applied to pattern generation and Mackey-Glass chaotic series prediction. The simulations take into account the major aspects of our experimental setup. We find that pattern generation can be easily implemented on the current setup with very good results. The Mackey-Glass series prediction task is more complex and requires a large reservoir and more elaborate training algorithm. With these adjustments promising result are obtained, and we now know what improvements are needed to match previously reported numerical results. These simulation results will serve as basis of comparison for experiments we will carry out in the coming months.

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Piotr Antonik, Michiel Hermans, François Duport, Marc Haelterman, and Serge Massar "Towards pattern generation and chaotic series prediction with photonic reservoir computers", Proc. SPIE 9732, Real-time Measurements, Rogue Events, and Emerging Applications, 97320B (9 March 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2210948

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