This is not a direct answer but maybe usefull. I had similar problem but in
NLP context memorizing phrases. I've developed an special Sequence
Memorizer based on CLA which has not this problem. Any
repetitive/non-repetitive sequences can be memorized. Just note that in my
implementation there is no spatial pooler but just temporal pooler.

View source at: https://github.com/softnhard/Adaptive-Sequence-Memorizer
El Mié 06/05/2015, 20:26, cogmission (David Ray) <[email protected]>
escribió:

> Nevertheless, in this case, it looks like the implementation should
>> "protect" that. I.e. don't perform compute() in temporalMemory if
>> activeColumns in "t" are equal to "t-1".
>
>
> Repetitions are significant in the sequence. Remember, we're not
> "calculating", we're simply activating columns and cells in a pattern;
> reinforcing affinities of connections - not doing operations which yield a
> "final result". We're modeling neural circuitry not building an equivalent
> formula calculator? It takes some getting used to :-)
>
> Actually, the implementation is *totally* event-driven. If there are no
> inputs, nothing happens! :-)
>
> David
>
>
> On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 10:48 AM, Valentin Puente <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> 2015-05-06 17:27 GMT+02:00 cogmission (David Ray) <
>> [email protected]>:
>>
>>> Valentin,
>>>
>>>
>>>> Perhaps, I have some crazy idea about what is going on.  I think that
>>>> the notion of "t" and "t-1", implicitly asumes a synchronous circuit.
>>>> Nevertheless, biology don't have any clock around...  definitely is
>>>> asynchronous. Under such assumption the previous sequence is not possible,
>>>> since all the repeated values are the same. Therefore, I think that the "t"
>>>> and "t-1" should be redefined as the time where the "input changed". If we
>>>> feed the memory with the same input sequence in t and t-1 something is
>>>> going to be bad at the end.
>>>
>>>
>>> HTM Theory does not have any real "time" so to speak. We're talking
>>> about sequences, and yes in the biology (I just recently overheard this),
>>> there are "serial" cell/column events. Now, "t-1" refers to the state the
>>> cell/column was left in during the previous activation - cells "depolarize"
>>> making them quicker to fire (and subsequently beat out the race against
>>> inhibitory cell activations); the resulting "depolarization" is what is
>>> modeled as the state in t-1 (AFAIK).
>>>
>>>>
>>>
>> Thanks David. I understand now (being used to circuits, this is a bit
>> hard for me :-)
>>
>> Nevertheless, in this case, it looks like the implementation should
>> "protect" that. I.e. don't perform compute() in temporalMemory if
>> activeColumns in "t" are equal to "t-1".
>>
>> --
>> vpuente
>>
>> PS:  Perhaps the implementation is too "time-driven". I think that a
>> "event-driven" approach  could be more close to the reality (besides have
>> better performance... especially given the sparsity of the problem).
>>
>
>
>
> --
> *With kind regards,*
>
> David Ray
> Java Solutions Architect
>
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