On the Role of Preprocessing and Memristor Dynamics in Reservoir Computing for Image Classification

arXiv:2604.21602v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reservoir computing (RC) is an emerging recurrent neural network architecture that has attracted growing attention for its low training cost and modest hardware requirements. Memristor-based circuits are particularly promising for RC, as their intrinsic dynamics can reduce network size and parameter overhead in tasks such as time-series prediction and image recognition. Although RC has been demonstrated with several memristive devices, a comprehe