Seems like Numenta is out of ideas about how the brain works. What happened to them?
In this work they simply took a standard neural network, sparsified weights and activations, trained it with standard gradient descent and backpropagation, and called it a day.
This would have been unthinkable 10 years ago when they were after biological plausibility of their algorithms.
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In this work they simply took a standard neural network, sparsified weights and activations, trained it with standard gradient descent and backpropagation, and called it a day.
This would have been unthinkable 10 years ago when they were after biological plausibility of their algorithms.