Overlap and Hierarchy
- There wasn't much new in that stuff but I think this stuff
is new (and I'm pretty happy with it).
- There is no reason that a neuron can't participate in
multiple CAs. These are overlapping CAs.
- I got some overlapping CAs working and it turns out that
the compensatory learning rule helps a lot here.
- One of the benefits of this is that categories can share
neurons.
- An obvious extension was to simulate hierarchies of categories.
- So, I developed a hierarchy including Dog, Cat, Rat and Mammal.
- I presented Dogs, Cats and Rats. It learned those and also
the Mammal category.