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| author | Sigdel, Dibakar |
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| contents | We present the \textbf{Variational Phasor Circuit (VPC)}, a deterministic classical learning architecture operating on the continuous $S^1$ unit circle manifold. Inspired by variational quantum circuits, VPC replaces dense real-valued weight matrices with trainable phase shifts, local unitary mixing, and structured interference in the ambient complex space. This phase-native design provides a unified method for both binary and multi-class classification of spatially distributed signals. A single VPC block supports compact phase-based decision boundaries, while stacked VPC compositions extend the model to deeper circuits through inter-block pull-back normalization. Using synthetic brain-computer interface benchmarks, we show that VPC can decode difficult mental-state classification tasks with competitive accuracy and substantially fewer trainable parameters than standard Euclidean baselines. These results position unit-circle phase interference as a practical and mathematically principled alternative to dense neural computation, and motivate VPC as both a standalone classifier and a front-end encoding layer for future hybrid phasor-quantum systems. |
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| spellingShingle | Variational Phasor Circuits for Phase-Native Brain-Computer Interface Classification Sigdel, Dibakar Machine Learning We present the \textbf{Variational Phasor Circuit (VPC)}, a deterministic classical learning architecture operating on the continuous $S^1$ unit circle manifold. Inspired by variational quantum circuits, VPC replaces dense real-valued weight matrices with trainable phase shifts, local unitary mixing, and structured interference in the ambient complex space. This phase-native design provides a unified method for both binary and multi-class classification of spatially distributed signals. A single VPC block supports compact phase-based decision boundaries, while stacked VPC compositions extend the model to deeper circuits through inter-block pull-back normalization. Using synthetic brain-computer interface benchmarks, we show that VPC can decode difficult mental-state classification tasks with competitive accuracy and substantially fewer trainable parameters than standard Euclidean baselines. These results position unit-circle phase interference as a practical and mathematically principled alternative to dense neural computation, and motivate VPC as both a standalone classifier and a front-end encoding layer for future hybrid phasor-quantum systems. |
| title | Variational Phasor Circuits for Phase-Native Brain-Computer Interface Classification |
| topic | Machine Learning |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.18078 |