On Computational Power and the Order-Chaos Phase Transition in Reservoir Computing

• https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2008/file/b99d193b66a6542917d2b7bee52c2574-Paper.pdf

Reservoir computing (Echo state network) can be performed with binary (spiking) neurons or analog neurons. This paper provides an explanation on why network structure matters more with binary or spiking neurons.