Hi Nick,

Note that NAB does not do classification - it just does anomaly detection
in real time scenarios. I think temporal classification with HTMs is an
area of research (we haven't done much with classification at Numenta and
unfortunately we don't have clear worked out examples).

--Subutai


On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 9:26 AM, Nicholas Mitri <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Thanks Subutai! You mentioned the project to me in a pervious exchange but
> I couldn’t find it.
> I’ll have a look at the code.
> HTM didn’t perform too well in a set of classification experiments I
> prepared for my thesis so I really wanted to showcase it doing what it does
> best. Unfortunately, I only had the hot gym example which I don’t think
> offers enough insight into how HTM can be put to the best use. Hopefully,
> the NAB project can offer a better alternative.
>
> Thanks again,
> Nick
>
>
> On Mar 1, 2015, at 7:18 PM, Subutai Ahmad <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Nick,
>
> Are you referring to NAB (Numenta Anomaly Benchmark)?  The code for it is
> here:
>
> https://github.com/numenta/NAB
>
> The purpose of NAB is to establish a benchmark for real time anomaly
> detection. One of the goals is to include actual real-world sensor data
> with labeled anomalies.  We’re at an “alpha” stage right now so it is not
> fully complete but you can look through it (there’s a doc on the wiki).
>
> NAB is not specific to Numenta. We’ve included Skyline (a popular open
> source anomaly detection algorithm) but we hope over time people will add
> other algorithms.
>
> It’s not fully ready yet but I’m happy to go over details in the next
> office hour if there is interest. We could really use help from anyone who
> can provide real sensor/machine data with anomalies.
>
> —Subutai
>
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Nicholas Mitri <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hey all,
>>
>> There was talk of an ongoing project to benchmark HTM against a set of
>> algorithms.
>> Any updates on that?
>>
>> I’d be interested to see what algorithms the Numenta team finds
>> comparable to HTM.
>>
>> best,
>> Nick
>
>
>
>

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