The 4th International Workshop on Reservoir Computing (RC 2026)

Workshop of the 35th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks  (ICANN 2026)

https://e-nns.org/icann2026/

The RC Workshop

Reservoir Computing (RC) denotes a class of recurrent neural models whose dynamics are left unadapted after initialization. The approach is appealing for several reasons, such as fast training, a natural propensity to edge computing and strong theoretical foundations with implications for the basic properties of recurrent neural networks in general.

In the wake of the recent success of the past edition at ICANN 2025, the 4th International Workshop on Reservoir Computing (RC 2026) intends to once more bring together researchers to discuss the state-of-the-art and open challenges in the field of RC, in all its declinations. These include, among others, new models of Echo State Networks and Liquid State Machines, non-conventional hardware (e.g., photonic) implementations of RC systems, applications to problems of AI size with human-level performance, emerging paradigms (e.g., conceptors), RC for structured data, deep RC, hybrid RC/fully trained RNN models, and many more. The workshop provides an open forum for researchers to meet and present recent contributions and ideas in a fervid and highly interdisciplinary environment. Industrial contributions are welcome.

See the topics of interest for the RC 2026 workshop in the call for papers.

The workshop will feature both contributed papers and keynotes.

More info on the Submission page.

Deadline for full paper and extended abstract submission: TBD

 Notification of acceptance: TBD

 Camera-ready upload: TBD

 Conference dates: 14-17 September 2026

Workshop Organizers and Program Chairs

• Domenico Tortorella (University of Pisa, Italy)

• Benjamin Paassen (Bielefeld University, Germany)

• Andrea Ceni (University of Pisa, Italy)

• Gouhei Tanaka (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan)

• Anna Bison (University of Padua, Italy)

• Claudio Gallicchio (University of Pisa, Italy)

See the previous edition of the International Workshop on Reservoir Computing:

• RC 2025 in Kaunas, Lithuania

• RC 2024 in Lugano, Switzerland

• RC 2019 in Munich, Germany

The RC 2026 Workshop is organized as part of the activities of the IEEE Task Force on Reservoir Computing (TFRC)

Workshop organized with the contribution of the Project DEEP-GRAPH, funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research, PRIN 2022 (project code: 2022YLRBTT, CUP: I53C24002440006).