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Reading list – July 2015

This month’s reading list continues with a subtheme on recurrent neural networks, and in particular Long Short Term Memory (LSTM). First here’s an interesting report on a panel discussion about the future of Deep Learning at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2015: http://deeplearning.net/2015/07/13/a-brief-summary-of-the-panel-discussion-at-dl-workshop-icml-2015/ Participants included Yoshua Bengio (University… Read More »Reading list – July 2015

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

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

Cortical Learning Algorithms with Predictive Coding for a Systems-Level Cognitive Architecture

This is a quick post to link a poster paper by Ryan McCall, who has experimented with a Predictive-Coding / Cortical Learning Algorithm (PC-CLA) hybrid approach. We found the paper via Ryan writing to the NUPIC theory mailing list. What’s great about the paper is it links to some of… Read More »Cortical Learning Algorithms with Predictive Coding for a Systems-Level Cognitive Architecture

On Predictive Coding and Temporal Pooling

Introduction Predictive Coding (PC) is a popular theory of cortical function within the neuroscience community. There is considerable biological evidence to support the essential concepts (see e.g. “Canonical microcircuits for predictive coding” by Bastos et al). PC describes a method of encoding messages passed between processing units. Specifically, PC states that… Read More »On Predictive Coding and Temporal Pooling