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RESERVOIR COMPUTING

The secret order of disorder

Nature Materials volume 21, pages 134–135 (2022)Cite this article

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A seemingly disordered network of nanowires governed by thermodynamics is used as the physical ‘reservoir’ in a memristive implementation of reservoir computing to process spatiotemporal information.

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Fig. 1: All-memristive reservoir computing system.

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    Qiangfei Xia & Rivu Midya

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    J. Joshua Yang

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Xia, Q., Yang, J.J. & Midya, R. The secret order of disorder. Nat. Mater. 21, 134–135 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-021-01110-3

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