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. 1997 Aug 29;352(1358):1177–1190. doi: 10.1098/rstb.1997.0101

Generative models for discovering sparse distributed representations.

G E Hinton 1, Z Ghahramani 1
PMCID: PMC1692002  PMID: 9304685

Abstract

We describe a hierarchical, generative model that can be viewed as a nonlinear generalization of factor analysis and can be implemented in a neural network. The model uses bottom-up, top-down and lateral connections to perform Bayesian perceptual inference correctly. Once perceptual inference has been performed the connection strengths can be updated using a very simple learning rule that only requires locally available information. We demonstrate that the network learns to extract sparse, distributed, hierarchical representations.

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