The Computational Value of Sensory-Aligned Receptive Fields Depends on Neuronal Expressivity

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Task-aligned structured receptive fields in recurrent ELM networks

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2026-09-22

The findings concern neuromorphic-style recurrent networks on sensory classification benchmarks, which fall outside the reader's production scope of deploying conventional models on a single 24 GB GPU or via APIs.

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   The method replaces random or sparsity-regularized input connectivity in recurrent networks of Expressive Leaky Memory neurons with feed-forward receptive fields explicitly organized along a task-relevant sensory coordinate such as frequency or retinotopic position. It costs prior knowledge of the relevant task geometry and a custom recurrent architecture with ELM neurons rather than standard layers, and the benefit is budget-sensitive because scrambled or task-irrelevant coordinates eliminate it. It can fail when the chosen coordinate does not match the task, when neurons are already highly expressive, or when a practitioner assumes sparsity regularization alone recovers the same gain, which the paper shows it does not.

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   Receptive fields aligned with a task-relevant sensory coordinate improve test accuracy over budget-matched random receptive fields on auditory and event-based visual classification; the advantage shrinks as neuronal expressivity increases and is only partially recovered by generic sparsity regularization. No multiplicative factor is reported.

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