Thousand Brains Project

Thousand Brains Project

Advancing AI & robotics by reverse engineering the neocortex. Leveraging sensorimotor learning, structured reference frames, & cortical modularity. Open-source research backed by Jeff Hawkins & Gates Foundation.

2026/06 - Community Shoutouts

2026/06 - Community Shoutouts

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3 days ago

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2026/06 - Attentional Regions, Policies, and Prediction Error

2026/06 - Attentional Regions, Policies, and Prediction Error

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5 days ago

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2026/06 - Brainstorming Around How Columns Work Together During Learning and Inference

2026/06 - Brainstorming Around How Columns Work Together During Learning and Inference

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1 week ago

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2026/05 - Monty's Capabilities Roadmap and Open Theoretical Questions

2026/05 - Monty's Capabilities Roadmap and Open Theoretical Questions

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1 week ago

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2026/05 - Deeper Dive into Trajectory Memory for Behavior Models

2026/05 - Deeper Dive into Trajectory Memory for Behavior Models

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2 weeks ago

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2026/05 - Trajectory Memory for Behavior Models

2026/05 - Trajectory Memory for Behavior Models

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2 weeks ago

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2026/05 - The 2D Sensor Module to Deal with 3D Distortions

2026/05 - The 2D Sensor Module to Deal with 3D Distortions

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3 weeks ago

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2026/06 - Community Shoutouts

2026/06 - Community Shoutouts

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3 weeks ago

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2026/05 - Open Theory Questions

2026/05 - Open Theory Questions

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1 month ago

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2026/05 - Discussing State in Morphology Models

2026/05 - Discussing State in Morphology Models

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1 month ago

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2026/04 - Summary of New Ideas Around Object State and Behaviors

2026/04 - Summary of New Ideas Around Object State and Behaviors

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1 month ago

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2026/04 - Brainstorming on Voting and Shared Learning Using Spatial Pooler-like Mechanisms

2026/04 - Brainstorming on Voting and Shared Learning Using Spatial Pooler-like Mechanisms

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1 month ago

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2026/04 - Focus Week Recap on Causal Interactions with the World

2026/04 - Focus Week Recap on Causal Interactions with the World

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1 month ago

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2026/04 - Focus Week Recap on Temporary Models in the Hippocampus

2026/04 - Focus Week Recap on Temporary Models in the Hippocampus

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1 month ago

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2026/03 - New Insights Around Deformations, Location Sharing, and Affordances

2026/03 - New Insights Around Deformations, Location Sharing, and Affordances

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1 month ago

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2026/02 - Top-Down Connections and Model Types

2026/02 - Top-Down Connections and Model Types

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1 month ago

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2026/05 - Updates to Monty's Motor System

2026/05 - Updates to Monty's Motor System

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1 month ago

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2026/04 - Community Shoutouts

2026/04 - Community Shoutouts

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2 months ago

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2026/02 - Brainstorming on Modeling Object Interactions, Deformations, and More

2026/02 - Brainstorming on Modeling Object Interactions, Deformations, and More

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2 months ago

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2026/02 - Thoughts Around Modeling Materials and Deformations

2026/02 - Thoughts Around Modeling Materials and Deformations

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2 months ago

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2026/02 - Summary of Brainstorming Week on Actions and Causality

2026/02 - Summary of Brainstorming Week on Actions and Causality

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2 months ago

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2026/01 - Preparation for the Focus Week on Actions and Causality

2026/01 - Preparation for the Focus Week on Actions and Causality

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2 months ago

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2026/01 - Learning Classes of Objects

2026/01 - Learning Classes of Objects

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2 months ago

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2025/08 - Review of Reference Frame Transforms in Monty + Issues Around Voting on Locations

2025/08 - Review of Reference Frame Transforms in Monty + Issues Around Voting on Locations

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2 months ago

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2025/08 - Recap of Behavior Solutions and Surface Model Proposal

2025/08 - Recap of Behavior Solutions and Surface Model Proposal

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2 months ago

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2026/04 - Q2 Roadmap and Q1 Review

2026/04 - Q2 Roadmap and Q1 Review

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2 months ago

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2026/03 - Community Shoutouts

2026/03 - Community Shoutouts

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2 months ago

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2026/03 - London Retreat Demos: MuJoCo Integration, Config Improvements & Theoretical Progress

2026/03 - London Retreat Demos: MuJoCo Integration, Config Improvements & Theoretical Progress

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3 months ago

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2026/01 - Learning Efficiently in a Hierarchy

2026/01 - Learning Efficiently in a Hierarchy

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3 months ago

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2026/04 - Monty for Ultrasound - A Real World Challenge

2026/04 - Monty for Ultrasound - A Real World Challenge

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3 months ago

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2025/08 - Review of Time Cells and Matrix Cells

2025/08 - Review of Time Cells and Matrix Cells

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3 months ago

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2026/03 - Dealing with Multiobject Environments Through Burst Sampling

2026/03 - Dealing with Multiobject Environments Through Burst Sampling

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3 months ago

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2026/01 - Using Saliency for Efficient Movements

2026/01 - Using Saliency for Efficient Movements

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3 months ago

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2026/01 - Brainstorming How to Demonstrate Benefits of Compositional Models

2026/01 - Brainstorming How to Demonstrate Benefits of Compositional Models

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3 months ago

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2026/02 - Community Shout-Outs

2026/02 - Community Shout-Outs

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4 months ago

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2026/02 - A Thousand Brains on a Thousand Chips: Scaling Monty on CPUs, GPUs, and PiM Chips

2026/02 - A Thousand Brains on a Thousand Chips: Scaling Monty on CPUs, GPUs, and PiM Chips

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4 months ago

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2025/12 - Focus Week Recap on Actions and Behaviors

2025/12 - Focus Week Recap on Actions and Behaviors

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4 months ago

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2025/10 - Representations in the Superior Colliculus

2025/10 - Representations in the Superior Colliculus

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4 months ago

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2025/11 - Discussing the Relationship Between Hippocampal Complex and Neocortex

2025/11 - Discussing the Relationship Between Hippocampal Complex and Neocortex

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4 months ago

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2026/01 - Community Shout-Outs

2026/01 - Community Shout-Outs

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4 months ago

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2025/11 - More Discussions Around Learning Causality

2025/11 - More Discussions Around Learning Causality

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4 months ago

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2025/11 - Discussing Attention, Causality, and the Role of the Hippocampus for Action Outputs

2025/11 - Discussing Attention, Causality, and the Role of the Hippocampus for Action Outputs

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5 months ago

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2025/11 - Cortical Columns Across Species

2025/11 - Cortical Columns Across Species

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5 months ago

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2025/11 - Exploring How Cortical Columns Learn Behavior and Causality

2025/11 - Exploring How Cortical Columns Learn Behavior and Causality

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5 months ago

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2022/02 - Rotation Invariant Displacements

2022/02 - Rotation Invariant Displacements

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5 months ago

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2025/12 - Processing Off-Object Observations in Monty - Working Group

2025/12 - Processing Off-Object Observations in Monty - Working Group

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5 months ago

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2022/02 - Potential Touch Sensors for Monty

2022/02 - Potential Touch Sensors for Monty

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5 months ago

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2026/01 - 2025 Review / 2026 Direction & Goals

2026/01 - 2025 Review / 2026 Direction & Goals

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6 months ago

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2025/12 - Community Shout-Outs

2025/12 - Community Shout-Outs

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6 months ago

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2025/12 - Meet Monty 2026: Q&A with the Team

2025/12 - Meet Monty 2026: Q&A with the Team

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6 months ago

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2022/02 - Neural Descriptor Field and Vector Neuron Papers

2022/02 - Neural Descriptor Field and Vector Neuron Papers

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6 months ago

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2025/12 - 2026 and Beyond

2025/12 - 2026 and Beyond

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6 months ago

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2025/12 - Our Path to an Easy-to-Use Platform

2025/12 - Our Path to an Easy-to-Use Platform

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6 months ago

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2025/12 - Ways to Contribute

2025/12 - Ways to Contribute

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6 months ago

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2025/12 - Making a Pull Request to tbp.monty

2025/12 - Making a Pull Request to tbp.monty

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6 months ago

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2025/12 - Looking Inside Monty’s “Brain”

2025/12 - Looking Inside Monty’s “Brain”

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6 months ago

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2025/12 - Getting Started With Monty

2025/12 - Getting Started With Monty

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6 months ago

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2025/12 - The Principles Behind Monty

2025/12 - The Principles Behind Monty

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6 months ago

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2025/12 - Monty’s Capabilities

2025/12 - Monty’s Capabilities

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6 months ago

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2025/12 - The Legend of Monty - 2021 to 2025

2025/12 - The Legend of Monty - 2021 to 2025

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6 months ago

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Meet Monty 2026: Reverse Engineering Intelligence

Meet Monty 2026: Reverse Engineering Intelligence

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6 months ago

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2025/12 - Off Object Observations

2025/12 - Off Object Observations

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7 months ago

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2025/10 - Reference Frame Transforms From the Trenches

2025/10 - Reference Frame Transforms From the Trenches

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7 months ago

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2025/07 - Behind the DMC Paper

2025/07 - Behind the DMC Paper

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7 months ago

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2025/11 - Community Shoutouts

2025/11 - Community Shoutouts

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7 months ago

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2025/11 - Monty Configuration Using Hydra

2025/11 - Monty Configuration Using Hydra

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7 months ago

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2025/10 - Using Episodic Memory Replay to Train Cortical Columns

2025/10 - Using Episodic Memory Replay to Train Cortical Columns

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7 months ago

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2025/10 - Exploring Benchmarks for Hierarchical Learning and Compositional Object Models

2025/10 - Exploring Benchmarks for Hierarchical Learning and Compositional Object Models

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7 months ago

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2023/07 - Legend of Monty - Part 2

2023/07 - Legend of Monty - Part 2

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7 months ago

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2025/10 Community Shoutouts

2025/10 Community Shoutouts

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7 months ago

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2025/09 - Brighton Retreat Awards

2025/09 - Brighton Retreat Awards

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7 months ago

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2025/07 - Q3 Roadmap and Q2 Review

2025/07 - Q3 Roadmap and Q2 Review

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7 months ago

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2025/09 - Ramy Presents tbp.plot, Widgets, Pub-Sub Pattern

2025/09 - Ramy Presents tbp.plot, Widgets, Pub-Sub Pattern

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7 months ago

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2025/07 - Q3 Roadmap

2025/07 - Q3 Roadmap

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7 months ago

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2025/10 Community Shoutouts

2025/10 Community Shoutouts

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8 months ago

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HTM Sequence Memory and Time and Grid Cells in the Neocortex

HTM Sequence Memory and Time and Grid Cells in the Neocortex

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8 months ago

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2025/09 - How Does the Neocortex Split and Combine Models Without Relearning?

2025/09 - How Does the Neocortex Split and Combine Models Without Relearning?

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8 months ago

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2025/09 - Proposal for How Columns Learn Sequences and Behaviors

2025/09 - Proposal for How Columns Learn Sequences and Behaviors

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8 months ago

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2025/09 - Modeling and Evaluating Compositional Object Representations

2025/09 - Modeling and Evaluating Compositional Object Representations

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8 months ago

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2022/08 - Spatial Pooler & Temporal Memory for Monty

2022/08 - Spatial Pooler & Temporal Memory for Monty

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8 months ago

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2025/09 - Brighton Retreat Final Presentations

2025/09 - Brighton Retreat Final Presentations

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9 months ago

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2025/10 - Q3 Roadmap

2025/10 - Q3 Roadmap

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9 months ago

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2025/09 - Brighton Retreat Kickoff

2025/09 - Brighton Retreat Kickoff

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9 months ago

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2025/08 - GPU-Backed Learning Modules 2

2025/08 - GPU-Backed Learning Modules 2

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9 months ago

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2022/05 - Sample Invariant Object Recognition with Temporal Memory

2022/05 - Sample Invariant Object Recognition with Temporal Memory

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9 months ago

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2025/08/28 GPU Support Meeting

2025/08/28 GPU Support Meeting

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9 months ago

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2025/07 - Proposal for Separating Behavior Models

2025/07 - Proposal for Separating Behavior Models

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9 months ago

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2025/07 - Flash Inference and Voting

2025/07 - Flash Inference and Voting

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9 months ago

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2025/08 Community Shoutouts

2025/08 Community Shoutouts

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10 months ago

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How Embodied Movements Might be Learned and Controlled

How Embodied Movements Might be Learned and Controlled

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10 months ago

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Grid Cell Literature Review

Grid Cell Literature Review

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10 months ago

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2025/08 - Implementing Behavioral Models

2025/08 - Implementing Behavioral Models

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10 months ago

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2025/07 - Hypotheses Resampling. Salience Maps. Language of Robotics.

2025/07 - Hypotheses Resampling. Salience Maps. Language of Robotics.

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11 months ago

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2025-05 LEGO Robot Presentation and Demo

2025-05 LEGO Robot Presentation and Demo

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11 months ago

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2025/05 - Robot Hackathon Presentations

2025/05 - Robot Hackathon Presentations

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11 months ago

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2025/02 - Ultrasound Demo

2025/02 - Ultrasound Demo

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11 months ago

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2025-05 Ultrasound Presentation and Demo

2025-05 Ultrasound Presentation and Demo

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11 months ago

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2025/04 - Behavior Models in Monty \u0026 Potential Solutions to Open Questions

2025/04 - Behavior Models in Monty \u0026 Potential Solutions to Open Questions

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11 months ago

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2025/04 - A Solution for Behavior in the Cortex

2025/04 - A Solution for Behavior in the Cortex

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11 months ago

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2025/03 - Behavior Models Review / Open Questions Around Behavior

2025/03 - Behavior Models Review / Open Questions Around Behavior

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11 months ago

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2025/02 - Review of the Cortical Circuit, Object Behavior

2025/02 - Review of the Cortical Circuit, Object Behavior

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11 months ago

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2025/02 - Brainstorming on Modeling Object Behaviors and Representations in Minicolumns

2025/02 - Brainstorming on Modeling Object Behaviors and Representations in Minicolumns

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11 months ago

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2022/03 - How Compositional Models are Constructed

2022/03 - How Compositional Models are Constructed

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11 months ago

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How Neurons Interpolate Between Points

How Neurons Interpolate Between Points

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11 months ago

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2022/05 - Why Monty Will Change the World

2022/05 - Why Monty Will Change the World

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11 months ago

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2024/07 - How the Cortex Represents Structure

2024/07 - How the Cortex Represents Structure

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11 months ago

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2022/10 - Monty: Action Policies \u0026 Hierarchy

2022/10 - Monty: Action Policies \u0026 Hierarchy

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11 months ago

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2023/01 - Hierarchy in the Neocortex Overview

2023/01 - Hierarchy in the Neocortex Overview

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11 months ago

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2025/04 - TBP Future Applications \u0026 Positive Impacts

2025/04 - TBP Future Applications \u0026 Positive Impacts

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11 months ago

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2025/04 - Q2 Roadmap

2025/04 - Q2 Roadmap

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11 months ago

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2024/07 - Corticothalamic Connections Overview

2024/07 - Corticothalamic Connections Overview

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11 months ago

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2024/07 - Minicolumns, References Frames and Models

2024/07 - Minicolumns, References Frames and Models

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11 months ago

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11 months ago

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2025/06 - Brainstorming on Morphological Structure and Behavior Models

2025/06 - Brainstorming on Morphological Structure and Behavior Models

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12 months ago

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2025/07 - Hierarchy or Heterarchy? A Theory of Long-Range Connections for the Sensorimotor Brain

2025/07 - Hierarchy or Heterarchy? A Theory of Long-Range Connections for the Sensorimotor Brain

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1 year ago

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2025/07 - Thousand-Brains Systems: Sensorimotor Intelligence for Rapid Robust Learning and Inference

2025/07 - Thousand-Brains Systems: Sensorimotor Intelligence for Rapid Robust Learning and Inference

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1 year ago

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2025/06 - Brainstorming Around Behavior and Deformations

2025/06 - Brainstorming Around Behavior and Deformations

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1 year ago

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2025/06 - Behavior Research Retreat Review

2025/06 - Behavior Research Retreat Review

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1 year ago

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2025/05 - Behavior with Balloons

2025/05 - Behavior with Balloons

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1 year ago

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2025/04 - Ramy Presents Behaviors and Reference Frames

2025/04 - Ramy Presents Behaviors and Reference Frames

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1 year ago

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2025/03 - Thalamocortical Circuitry, Hierarchical Composition of Objects and Behaviors

2025/03 - Thalamocortical Circuitry, Hierarchical Composition of Objects and Behaviors

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1 year ago

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2025/06 - Hackathon Usability Feedback

2025/06 - Hackathon Usability Feedback

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1 year ago

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2025/05 - Scott, Ramy and Hojae Review Behavior Progress

2025/05 - Scott, Ramy and Hojae Review Behavior Progress

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1 year ago

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2025/04 - Behavioral Models and Predictive Learning

2025/04 - Behavioral Models and Predictive Learning

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1 year ago

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2022/02 - Object Representation, Touch Sensors, Object Segmentation

2022/02 - Object Representation, Touch Sensors, Object Segmentation

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1 year ago

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2022/02 - State of the Monty Project in Feb 2022

2022/02 - State of the Monty Project in Feb 2022

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1 year ago

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2022/02 - Graph Building as Hypothesis Generation

2022/02 - Graph Building as Hypothesis Generation

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1 year ago

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