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Wave Function Backpropagation with Explicit Temporal-Interval Dynamics
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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 wave. We derive standard WFB gradients and a spatial-curvature correction based on the Laplacian of the wave response. WFB is instantiated in a deliberately feed-forward trajectory predictor to provide a controlled proof of concept; sequence learning is outside the scope of the present evaluation. With motion features, STD-WFB using real intervals reduces average displacement error (ADE) by 20.4% relative to the original FFN baseline. In a new position-only evaluation that removes temporal leakage through precomputed velocity and acceleration, real-interval WFB reduces ADE by 10.4% relative to the original FFN and remains competitive with parameter-matched ReLU controls, obtaining 2.1% lower mean ADE than the matched FFN with explicit Delta t. Shuffled-interval WFB attains the lowest mean ADE, indicating that the present evidence supports the effectiveness of the wave representation but does not attribute the gain to interval alignment. These results establish WFB as a viable structured feed-forward learning formulation and define a clear basis for subsequent architectural studies.
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