A Machine Learning Guide to HTM (Hierarchical Temporal Memory) - UpShed

My name is Vincenzo Lomonaco and I'm a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Bologna where, in early 2019, I obtained my PhD in computer science working on "Continual Learning with Deep Architectures" in the effort of making current AI systems more autonomous and adaptive. Personally, I've always been fascinated and intrigued by the research insights coming out of the 15 years of Numenta research at the intersection of biological and machine intelligence. Now, as a visiting research scientist at Numenta, I've finally gotten the chance to go through all its fascinating research in much greater detail. I soon realized that, given the broadness of the Numenta research scope (across both neuroscience and computer science), along with the substantial changes made over the years to both the general theory and its algorithmic implementations, it may not be really straightforward to quickly grasp the concepts around them from a pure machine learning perspective. This is why I decided to provide a single-entry-point, easy-to-follow, and reasonably short guide to the HTM algorithm for people who have never been exposed to Numenta research but have a basic machine learning background.