Computing with large random patterns
Pentti Kanerva, Gunnar Sjödin, Jan Kristoferson, Robert Karlsson, Björn Levin, Anders Gaarsdal Holst, Jussi Karlgren, Magnus Sahlgren · 2001
We describe a style of computing that differs from traditional numeric and symbolic computing and is suited for modeling neural networks. We focus on one aspect of ``neurocomputing,'' namely, computing with large random patterns, or high-dimensional random vectors, and ask what kind of computing they perform and whether they can help us understand how the brain processes information and how the mind works. Rapidly developing hardware technology will soon be able to produce the massive circuits that this style of computing requires. This chapter develops a theory on which the computing could be based.