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 > > _______________________________________________ > nupic mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.numenta.org/mailman/listinfo/nupic_lists.numenta.org > >
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