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It seems like theres a kind of taboo against HTM in the ML community. I guess it stems from their lack of impressive benchmarks, but I think that's kind of miss
by akyu 11y ago
It seems like theres a kind of taboo against HTM in the ML community. I guess it stems from their lack of impressive benchmarks, but I think that's kind of missing the point when it comes to HTM. Maybe HTM isn't the right solution, but I think there is a lot to be learned by using neocortex inspired models, and HTM is at least a solid step in that direction. And the work Numenta has contributed on Sparse Codings shouldn't be overlooked.
- davmre 11y agoI don't think most ML people are actively hostile to HTM, just indifferent until they show some results. For example, Yann Lecun in his Reddit AMA: http://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/25lnbt/ama_yann_lecun/chisjsc http://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/25lnbt/ama_...
- ajays 11y agoI've yet to find one significant benchmark dataset where HTM beats other methods. One.
- dwf 11y agoExtraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence. Numenta has plenty of the former and nil as regards the latter. Even if they had invented some believably interesting task and done fair comparisons with other methods and shown that HTM succeeds where others fail, it would be considered worth a look by the wider machine learning community.