Reservoir Computing as a Language Model

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15779v2
• Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2025 05:37:05 GMT
• Title: Reservoir Computing as a Language Model
• Authors: Felix Köster, Atsushi Uchida,
• Abstract summary: Large Language Models (LLM) have dominated the science and media landscape duo to their impressive performance on processing large chunks of data.<n>We will investigate how reservoir computing performs on natural text processing, which could enable fast and energy efficient hardware implementations.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Large Language Models (LLM) have dominated the science and media landscape duo to their impressive performance on processing large chunks of data and produce human-like levels of text. Nevertheless, their huge energy demand and slow processing still a bottleneck for further increasing quality while also making the models accessible to everyone. To solve this bottleneck, we will investigate how reservoir computing performs on natural text processing, which could enable fast and energy efficient hardware implementations. Studies investigating the use of reservoir computing as a language model remain sparse. In this paper, we compare three distinct approaches for character-level language modeling, two different reservoir computing approaches, where only an output layer is trainable, and the well-known transformer-based architectures, which fully learn an attention-based sequence representation. We explore the performance, computational cost and prediction accuracy for both paradigms by equally varying the number of trainable parameters for all models. Using a consistent pipeline for all three approaches, we demonstrate that transformers excel in prediction quality, whereas reservoir computers remain highly efficient reducing the training and inference speed. Furthermore, we investigate two types of reservoir computing: a traditional reservoir with a static linear readout, and an attention-enhanced reservoir that dynamically adapts its output weights via an attention mechanism. Our findings underline how these paradigms scale and offer guidelines to balance resource constraints with performance.

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