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Hebbian-Oscillatory Co-Learning

Neural and Evolutionary Computing 2026-03-11 v1 Machine Learning

Abstract

We introduce Hebbian-Oscillatory Co-Learning (HOC-L), a unified two-timescale dynamical framework for joint structural plasticity and phase synchronization in bio-inspired sparse neural architectures. HOC-L couples two recent frameworks: the hyperbolic sparse geometry of Resonant Sparse Geometry Networks (RSGN), which employs Poincar\'{e} ball embeddings with Hebbian-driven dynamic sparsity, and the oscillator-based attention of Selective Synchronization Attention (SSA), which replaces dot-product attention with Kuramoto-type phase-locking dynamics. The key mechanism is synchronization-gated plasticity: the macroscopic order parameter r(t)r(t) of the oscillator ensemble gates Hebbian structural updates, so that connectivity consolidation occurs only when sufficient phase coherence signals a meaningful computational pattern. We prove convergence of the joint system to a stable equilibrium via a composite Lyapunov function and derive explicit timescale separation bounds. The resulting architecture achieves O(nk)O(n \cdot k) complexity with knk \ll n, preserving the sparsity of both parent frameworks. Numerical simulations confirm the theoretical predictions, demonstrating emergent cluster-aligned connectivity and monotonic Lyapunov decrease.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2603.08731,
  title  = {Hebbian-Oscillatory Co-Learning},
  author = {Hasi Hays},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.08731},
  year   = {2026}
}
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