Hyperbolic Gradient Operator and Hyperbolic Back-Propagation Learning Algorithms

In this paper, we first extend the Wirtinger derivative which is defined for complex functions to hyperbolic functions, and derive the hyperbolic gradient operator yielding the steepest descent direction by using it. Next, we derive the hyperbolic backpropagation learning algorithms for some multilayered hyperbolic neural networks (NNs) using the hyperbolic gradient operator. It is shown that the use of the Wirtinger derivative reduces the effort necessary for the derivation of the learning algorithms by half, simplifies the representation of the learning algorithms, and makes their computer programs easier to code. In addition, we discuss the differences between the derived Hyperbolic-BP rules and the complex-valued backpropagation learning rule (Complex-BP). Finally, we make some experiments with the derived learning algorithms. As a result, we find that the convergence rates of the Hyperbolic-BP learning algorithms are high even if the fully activation functions are used, and discover that the Hyperbolic-BP learning algorithm for the hyperbolic NN with the split-type hyperbolic activation function has an ability to learn hyperbolic rotation as its inherent property.