Description

Hierarchical Temporal Memory (HTM) is a machine learning model developed by Jeff Hawkins and Dileep George of Numenta, Inc. that models some of the structural and algorithmic properties of the neocortex using an approach somewhat similar to Bayesian networks. HTM model is based on the memory-prediction theory of brain function described by Jeff Hawkins in his book On Intelligence. HTMs are claimed to be biomimetic models of cause inference in intelligence.

While criticized by the AI community as rehashing existing material (for example, in the December 2005 issue of the Artificial Intelligence journal[citation needed]), the model is quite novel[citation needed] in proposing functions for cortical layers. As such it is related to similar work by Tomaso Poggio and David Mumford amongst others.