Competitive Learning Archives

Convolutional Competitive Learning vs. Sparse Autoencoders (1/2)

by David Rawlinson
June 6, 2018

Competitive learning is a branch of unsupervised learning that was popular a long, long time ago in the 1990s. Older readers may remember – the days before widespread use of GSM mobile phones and before Google won the search engine wars! Although competitive learning is now rarely used, it is worth… Read More »Convolutional Competitive Learning vs. Sparse Autoencoders (1/2)

Toward a Universal Cortical Algorithm: Examining Hierarchical Temporal Memory in Light of Frontal Cortical Function

by David Rawlinson
November 25, 2014November 20, 2017
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This post is about a fantastic new paper by Michael R. Ferrier, titled: Toward a Universal Cortical Algorithm: Examining Hierarchical Temporal Memory in Light of Frontal Cortical Function The paper was posted to the NUPIC mailing list and can be found via: http://numenta.org/community-content.html The paper itself… Read More »Toward a Universal Cortical Algorithm: Examining Hierarchical Temporal Memory in Light of Frontal Cortical Function