A Grid Cell-Inspired Structured Vector Algebra for Cognitive Maps

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.08608v1
• Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 16:45:52 GMT
• Title: A Grid Cell-Inspired Structured Vector Algebra for Cognitive Maps
• Authors: Sven Krausse, Emre Neftci, Friedrich T. Sommer, Alpha Renner,
• Abstract summary: The entorhinal-hippocampal formation is the mammalian brain's navigation system, encoding both physical and abstract spaces via grid cells.<n>Here, we propose a mechanistic model for versatile information processing in the entorhinal-hippocampal formation inspired by CANs and Vector Architectures (VSAs)<n>The novel grid-cell VSA model employs a spatially structured encoding scheme with 3D modules mimicking the discrete scales and orientations of grid cell modules.
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• Abstract: The entorhinal-hippocampal formation is the mammalian brain's navigation system, encoding both physical and abstract spaces via grid cells. This system is well-studied in neuroscience, and its efficiency and versatility make it attractive for applications in robotics and machine learning. While continuous attractor networks (CANs) successfully model entorhinal grid cells for encoding physical space, integrating both continuous spatial and abstract spatial computations into a unified framework remains challenging. Here, we attempt to bridge this gap by proposing a mechanistic model for versatile information processing in the entorhinal-hippocampal formation inspired by CANs and Vector Symbolic Architectures (VSAs), a neuro-symbolic computing framework. The novel grid-cell VSA (GC-VSA) model employs a spatially structured encoding scheme with 3D neuronal modules mimicking the discrete scales and orientations of grid cell modules, reproducing their characteristic hexagonal receptive fields. In experiments, the model demonstrates versatility in spatial and abstract tasks: (1) accurate path integration for tracking locations, (2) spatio-temporal representation for querying object locations and temporal relations, and (3) symbolic reasoning using family trees as a structured test case for hierarchical relationships.

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