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The most commonly used implementation of handwritten digit recognition based on convolutional neural networks requires equipment with high computing power, which is not suitable for edge devices. Recently, spiking neural network (SNN) has received more attentions due to its low power consumption and real-time performance, but training SNN is very difficult. As a special SNN, liquid state machine (LSM) has the advantages of simple structure and easy training, so it is very suitable for handwritten digit recognition on edge devices. But it has no advantage in recognition accuracy. In order to improve the performance of LSM, its reservoir needs to be optimized. In this paper, an efficient local optimization strategy is proposed, improving the recognition accuracy of LSM by 11.8% with less the training time. In order to reduce the runtime, auto-encoder and feature screening are used to compress the input handwritten digit image. After feature compression, the input storage is reduced by 57%, and the runtime is reduced by 30%. This work provides an effective way to realize handwritten digit recognition on the edge devices.
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