I'd like to mentor Reconstruction idea for SoN.
https://github.com/numenta/nupic/wiki/Season-of-NuPIC-2014-Idea-List#wiki-8-reintroduce-reconstruction-to-nupic

Will add some resources from this thread to it later..
Mark



On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 3:36 PM, Bert Frederiks <[email protected]> wrote:

> I think I gave a biologically possible implementation of this
> reconstruction; it probably does this better than classic back-prop models.
> I also think it is more easy to understand through the idea of mirroring
> between a (re)constructing and deconstructing neural network.
>
> In the HTM model biologically this reconstruction feedback would go to
> cortical neural level 6.
>
> Bert
>
> op 06-03-14 00:08, Ian Danforth schreef:
>
>>
>> Using the same weights going up and coming down isn't biological but
>> reconstruction in general is fundamental to biological intelligence.
>>
>> Ian
>>
>> On Mar 5, 2014 10:20 AM, "Subutai Ahmad" <[email protected] <mailto:
>> [email protected]>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>     Yes, that is what the old reconstruction algorithm tried to do. I
>>     looked around and found an old writeup of it which I've attached
>>     here.  The language in it is outdated, but perhaps still helpful?
>>      Section 3 (top down compute) is the most relevant.
>>
>>     Historically, we stopped using it in nupic because the classifier
>>     based approach worked much better in the OPF for prediction.
>>
>>     Also, this algorithm is not at all biologically realistic.
>>     However, it may still be quite useful!
>>
>>     --Subutai
>>
>>
>>     On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 9:49 AM, Marek Otahal <[email protected]
>>     <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>
>>         If by the 'old reconstruction' we mean that each block (SP,
>>         TP, encoder) can process in reverse direction (top-down)? then
>>         YES for me. I'd have lots usages.
>>         I'd be willing to mentor this task in SoN.
>>
>>
>>         On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 6:49 PM, Chetan Surpur
>>         <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>
>>             In order to use CEPT SDRs with both the spatial pooler and
>>             the temporal pooler (rather than just the TP directly), we
>>             will need some form of reconstruction. This will allow us
>>             to bring back the output of the TP into the original CEPT
>>             SDR space.
>>
>>             This reasoning applies to any predetermined SDRs that you
>>             want to feed into a region and get a prediction for.
>>
>>             On Feb 27, 2014 9:37 AM, "Matthew Taylor"
>>             <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>
>>                 Is the old reconstruction algorithm a good idea and
>>                 should we bring
>>                 back a working implementation in NuPIC? This is a
>>                 meaty topic that
>>                 Subutai and Ian have started on Github[1][2]. We'd
>>                 like to have this
>>                 conversation here on the mailing list before we create
>>                 further tickets
>>                 and take action.
>>
>>                 Please chime in if you have an opinion.
>>
>>                 [1]
>>                 https://github.com/numenta/nupic/pull/421#issuecomment-
>> 30059730
>>                 [2] https://github.com/numenta/nupic/issues/683
>>
>>
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Marek Otahal :o)
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