In this work, a general class of discrete time bidirectional associative memory (BAM) neural networks (NNs) is investigated. In this model, discrete and continuously distributed time delays are taken into account. By utilizing this novel method, which incorporates the approach of Kirchhoff’s matrix tree theorem in graph theory, Continuation theorem in coincidence degree theory and Lyapunov function, we derive a few sufficient conditions to ensure the existence, uniqueness and exponential stability of the periodic solution of the considered model. At the end of this work, we give a numerical simulation that shows the effectiveness of this work.

In this work, we mainly focus on uncertain delayed neural network system with inertial term. Here, the existence, uniqueness, and exponential stability of inertial neural networks are derived without shifting the second order differential system into first order through substituting variables. Initially, we construct a proper Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional to investigate the stability of novel uncertain delayed inertial neural networks, which is different from the classical Lyapunov functional approach. By utilizing the Kirchhoff’s matrix tree theorem, Cauchy–Schwartz inequality, homeomorphism theorem, and some inequality techniques, the necessary and sufficient conditions are derived for the designed framework. Subsequently, to exhibit the strength of this outcome, we framed a quantitative example.