Hi Ryan,

That's right, it needs to be greater than minThreshold. There is a variable
called newSynapseCount in there that controls this parameter.

Cheers,

--Subutai


On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Ryan J. McCall <[email protected]> wrote:

>  Hi all,
>
> I was studying the temporal pooler parameters used in the file:
>
> /examples/opf/experiments/opfrunexperiment_test/simpleOPF/hotgym/description.py
>
> I'm curious as to how many synapses should be initially created per
> distal dendrite segment. I didn't find a parameter defining this. Based on
> my understanding from the whitepaper, it seems that there has to be at
> least 'minThreshold' number of previous active synapses on a dendrite
> segment to have any sequence segment updates queued.
>
> # Minimum number of active synapses for a segment to be considered
> # during search for the best-matching segments.
> # None=use default
> # Replaces: tpMinThreshold
> 'minThreshold': 12,
>
> So is there a guideline on how many synapses distal dendrite segments
> should be created initially? For instance, if 'minThreshold' is 12 and we
> only have 11 initial synapses per segment it appears to me that it would be
> impossible for the temporal pooler to ever "get off the ground" so to
> speak. My guess is that there would need to be at least x2 'minThreshold'
> initially... Many thanks, Ryan McCall
>
> --
> Ryan J. McCall
> Ph.D. Student, Dept. of Computer Science
> Cognitive Computing Research Group
> Institute for Intelligent Systems
> The University of Memphis
> ryanjmccall.com
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