Data-Specific Hyper-Parameter Design: A Paradigm Shift in Reservoir Computing

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.25221v1
• Date: Sun, 24 May 2026 19:13:13 GMT
• Title: Data-Specific Hyper-Parameter Design: A Paradigm Shift in Reservoir Computing
• Abstract summary: Reservoir computing typically relies on large, randomly generated reservoirs, enabling simple, often linear readouts.<n>We develop reservoir design principles from a geometric perspective for inputs generated by deterministic dynamical systems.<n> Numerical experiments demonstrate consistent performance gains over arbitrary reservoir constructions.
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• Abstract: Reservoir computing typically relies on large, randomly generated reservoirs, enabling simple, often linear readouts. Over the past two decades, most constructions have exploited the freedom to select the reservoir, constrained primarily by stability conditions based on state contraction or memory capacity. However, these designs are largely independent of the input data and learning objective, resulting in a trial-and-error methodology driven by randomness. In high dimensions, the reservoir acts as a random embedding of the input history, implicitly relying on Johnson--Lindenstrauss--type concentration phenomena to preserve information. In contrast, we develop reservoir design principles from a geometric perspective for inputs generated by deterministic dynamical systems. Rather than relying on random embeddings, we require reservoir state increments to align within a cone around an input-determined vector subspace, and prove that such a cone concentration reduces ridge-regression training error. When the cone angle is small, the variance of reservoir states concentrates in the input-determined subspace, improving conditioning of the empirical second-moment matrix and strengthening alignment between dominant covariance directions and the state-target cross-covariance. For echo state networks, we provide a constructive approach to reservoir design. The reservoir matrix is chosen so that associated Krylov-chain directions remain nearly closed within an input-determined subspace while permitting controlled mixing in its orthogonal complement. We also provide a spectral diagnostic for ridge regression training that identifies when reservoir geometry concentrates predictive information into a few dominant covariance modes and when ``spectral pollution'' inhibits forecasting. Numerical experiments demonstrate consistent performance gains over arbitrary reservoir constructions.

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