Hebbian-Oscillatory Co-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 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 complexity with , 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}
}