In-materio reservoir computing based on magnetic skyrmions
Karin Everschor-Sitte, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Learning and pattern recognition necessarily require memory of past events, a property that conventional CMOS hardware must laboriously and artificially emulate. Dynamical systems realized by, for example, various physical matter naturally provide the memory, complexity, and non-linearity required for a wealth of different unconventional computational approaches, including reservoir computing [1]. In contrast to neural networks, physical reservoir computing is a computational paradigm that requires fewer computational resources while considerably reducing computing time. Using simulations, we show that magnetic structures provide a competitive low-power physical implementation of the key ingredient of reservoir computing – the reservoir [2-4]. We developed efficient task-agnostic metrics benchmarking the reservoir’s key features – non-linearity, complexity, and fading memory [5]. We report the highest performance for in-materio reservoir computers for the benchmark test of classifying spoken digits using a multi-input channel magnetic skyrmion reservoir architecture [6]. Our results are on par with state-of-the-art non-in-materio reservoir systems. Experimental realizations of magnetic skyrmion reservoirs further highlight the potential for energy-efficient high-performance skyrmion-based RC [7,8].
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