The paper investigates the connectomes of *Caenorhabditis elegans* by implementing them as echo state networks within a reservoir computing framework. Using connectomes derived at different ages and through three distinct measurement methods, the authors benchmark performance on neuro-inspired tasks, comparing biological wiring to randomized null models. Results indicate that biological wiring and bio-informed input/output configurations do not consistently outperform random models, and performance varies significantly with reservoir configuration and connectome derivation.
arXiv:2606. 09902v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reservoir computing exploits the fixed dynamics of a recurrent network for temporal processing, requiring only a trained linear readout.
arXiv:2609.06093v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Connectomes, graph-level maps of neurons and their synaptic connections, provide a structural basis for understanding how brain circuits support functi...
arXiv:2609.13899v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The BabyLM challenge measures how much language a model can learn from developmentally-plausible, child-scale data rather than internet-scale corpora...
The paper introduces ELiSe, a model that leverages cortical network scaffolds and dendritic compartments to learn complex non‑Markovian spatio‑temporal patterns using only local, always‑on, phase‑free synaptic plasticity. It demonstrates the model’s ability to acquire and replay intricate sequences, exemplified by a birdsong learning mock‑up, and shows robustness to external disturbances and flexibility in parameter settings.
arXiv:2608. 04593v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Echo State Networks (ESNs) offer an efficient framework for temporal prediction, but their randomly initialized reservoirs are often over-parameterized and dynamically redundant.
arXiv:2607. 24420v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reservoir computing has emerged as an efficient machine learning framework for predicting time series generated by dynamical systems.
arXiv:2607. 15217v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present NeuronSoup, a neural computation architecture that replaces synchronous layer-by-layer processing with asynchronous, delay-mediated signal propagation through a pool of shared neurons.
arXiv:2509. 24122v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: At the heart of time-series forecasting (TSF) lies a fundamental challenge: how can models efficiently and effectively capture long-range temporal dependencies across ever-growing sequences?
arXiv:2606. 28380v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The intricate structures of biological neural networks largely emerge during development, guided by a comparatively compressed blueprint encoded in the genome.
Echo State Networks (ESNs) offer an efficient framework for temporal prediction, but their randomly initialized reservoirs are often over-parameterized and dynamically redundant. Existing pruning methods largely rely on static connectivity or activation statistics, which may overlook neurons that shape input-driven state transitions.
arXiv:2606. 14975v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: How the wiring and functional organization of cortex shape recurrent computation remains a central question in both neuroscience and machine learning.
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.