Efficient Neuromorphic Reservoir Computing Using Optoelectronic Memristors for Multivariate Time Series Classification

Reservoir computing (RC) has attracted much attention as a brain-like neuromorphic computing algorithm for time series processing. In addition, the hardware implementation of the RC system can significantly reduce the computing time and effectively apply it to edge computing, showing a wide range of applications. However, many hardware implementations of RC use different hardware to implement standard RC without further expanding the RC architecture, which makes it challenging to deal with relatively complex time series tasks. Therefore, we propose a bidirectional hierarchical light reservoir computing method using optoelectronic memristors as the basis for the hardware implementation. The approach improves the performance of hardware-implemented RC by allowing the memristor to capture multilevel temporal information and generate a variety of reservoir states. Ag[Formula: see text]GQDs[Formula: see text]TiOx[Formula: see text]FTO memristors with negative photoconductivity effects can map temporal inputs nonlinearly to reservoir states and are used to build physical reservoirs to accomplish higher-speed operations. The method’s effectiveness is demonstrated in multivariate time series classification tasks: a predicted accuracy of 98.44[Formula: see text] is achieved in voiceprint recognition and 99.70[Formula: see text] in the mobile state recognition task. Our study offers a strategy for dealing with multivariate time series classification issues and paves the way to developing efficient neuromorphic computing.