Creating a reservoir of custom nodes about reservoirpy HOT 2 CLOSED

Thank you for your response, I apologise for my confusion, I understand now what a Node actually is, I had assumed a reservoir was built up from Nodes, but that is not the case, a reservoir is a single Node.

That being said, I think it could be useful to include an example of creating a custom Reservoir in the tutorials / documentation on how the Reservoir Node works, to promote research into the capabilities of reservoir computing for people who may not be as familiar with software engineering.

But thank you for your help, and for developing this library :)

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Hello, sorry for the delay.

Connecting Nodes together to create a reservoir should be feasible, but it's not the way we think about Nodes in ReservoirPy.
They are parts of a reservoir computing architecture. In the standard Echo State Network model, we have a Reservoir node connected to a Ridge node.
But you can create and connect more nodes to create more complex architectures (here are some examples).

The Reservoir node is a pool of neurons. What you probably want to do is to subclass Node for your specific reservoir, that will hold your custom-defined neurons.

Let me know if you still have questions, feel free to close the issue if not

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