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Figure 1: The Region-Layer component. The upper surface in the figure is the Region-Layer, which consists of Cells (small rectangles) grouped into Columns. Within each Column, only a few cells are active at any time. The output of the Region-Layer is the activity of the Cells. Columns in the Region-Layer have similar – overlapping –…
This post asks some questions about the agency of hierarchical action selection. We assume various pieces of HTM / MPF canon, such as a cortical hierarchy. Agency The concept of agency has various meanings in psychology, neuroscience, artificial intelligence and philosophy. The common element is having control over a system, with varying qualifiers regarding the entities…
by David Rawlinson and Gideon Kowadlo Article Series This is the first of 3 articles about temporal pooler design for Numenta’s Cortical Learning Algorithm (CLA) and related methods (e.g. HTM/MPF). It has limited relevance to Deep Belief Networks. This first part will describe some of the considerations, objectives and constraints on temporal pooler design. We…