Hey Scott,

Looking at predicted values. Thanks, though, I've figured it out, was an
encoder issue.

Sergey
On Jan 9, 2015 5:20 PM, "Scott Purdy" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Sergey, there are a couple things I can think that might be the issue:
>
> 1. Are you looking at the predicted values or the probabilities associated
> with the predictions?
> 2. If your encoding has buckets too large then it may be predicted a
> bucket that includes 0 and some positive numbers. When this happens, it
> uses a exponential smoothing to pick the value to use for the predicted
> bucket. So you may change the encoder to make sure that 0, 1, 2, etc fall
> into different buckets.
>
> On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 11:18 AM, Matthew Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Sergey,
>>
>> It is hard to help without knowing some more about your setup. For
>> example how is he feeding in the data? What are the scalar encoder
>> parameters?  Has he swarmed on the data? How large is the training
>> data?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> ---------
>> Matt Taylor
>> OS Community Flag-Bearer
>> Numenta
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 4:00 PM, Sergey Alexashenko
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Hey all,
>> >
>> > Running into a problem with TemporalMultiStep prediction, wondering if
>> > anyone has encountered anything similar.
>> >
>> > I am feeding NuPIC a stream of data that includes a numeric variable I
>> am
>> > trying to predict. This variable follows a pretty obvious pattern, it
>> is 0
>> > for 4 periods at a time and on the 5th period has positive numeric
>> value.
>> > Here is a sample of the variable changing over time:
>> > 0,0,0,0,2,0,0,0,0,3,0,0,0,0,1... etc
>> >
>> > In CL params, I have NuPIC generate predictions for steps 1-5.
>> >
>> > However, instead of the prediction results I am expecting, e.g.:
>> >
>> > 0,0,0,0,4 or 0,3,0,0,0, depending where I am in the cycle, NuPIC makes
>> > predictions that look like this:
>> >
>> > 0.3,0.3,0.3,0.3,0.3
>> >
>> > I was wondering if anyone has any idea what's going on and what I can
>> do to
>> > fix this issue?
>> >
>> > Appreciate the help,
>> >
>> > Sergey
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>

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