IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
Online ISSN : 1745-1337
Print ISSN : 0916-8508
Modern Complex-Valued Hopfield Network for Associative Memory of Continuous and Periodic Patterns
Takanori HASHIMOTOTeijiro ISOKAWAMasaki KOBAYASHINaotake KAMIURA
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Article ID: 2025MAP0008

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In this study, we propose Modern Complex-Valued Hopfield Network (Modern CVHN), a novel associative memory model designed for continuous data with inherent periodic structure. The model operates on a toroidal state space—constructed as the Cartesian product of complex unit circles—and performs memory encoding and retrieval via a softmax-based energy function that intrinsically incorporates periodicity. Through numerical experiments, we demonstrate that Modern CVHN achieves superior memory capacity and robustness to noise compared to both conventional Complex-Valued Hopfield Networks and Modern Hopfield Network, across discrete phase patterns and continuous periodic data. These findings underscore the effectiveness of energy-based modeling on toroidal manifolds for associative memory involving periodic structures. This approach offers a promising foundation for future applications in complex information processing tasks characterized by periodicity.

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