Wave Function Backpropagation with Explicit Temporal-Interval Dynamics
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arXiv:2609.00503v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Conventional neural networks learn predominantly through affine transformations followed by nonlinear activations, while elapsed time is often treated as an auxiliary feature or assumed to be uniformly sampled. This paper introduces Wave Function Backpropagation (WFB), a wave-parameterized learning formulation in which neural responses are represented by learnable amplitude, wavenumber, angular frequency, and phase. The formulation associates an observed state with its temporal interval Delta t through the phase of a differentiable spatiotemporal
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- arXiv:2609.00503v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Conventional neural networks learn predominantly through affine transformations followed by nonlinear activations, while elapsed time is often treated as an auxiliary feature or assumed to be uniformly sampled.
- This paper introduces Wave Function Backpropagation (WFB), a wave-parameterized learning formulation in which neural responses are represented by learnable amplitude, wavenumber, angular frequency, and phase.
- The formulation associates an observed state with its temporal interval Delta t through the phase of a differentiable spatiotemporal
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