Noise sensitivity of physical reservoir computing in a ring array of atomic switches

Abstract

Reservoir computing (RC) is possible using physical systems. We have previously proposed an RC for ideal atomic switches. When temporal current fluctuations (noise) from the measurement of actual atomic switches are introduced into the proposed RC, performance degrades significantly. To address this issue, we propose novel methods for increasing the operating current range and observing the atomic switch several times to determine the average noise. Consequently, the memory capacity of the RC model increased, despite the presence of noise. To improve the precision of RC, we investigated the capacity and showed that changing the time constant of atomic switches results in an improvement.