Attractor Properties of Spatiotemporal Memory in Effective Sequence Processing Task

Abstract

For autonomous AI systems, it is important to process spatiotemporal information to encode and memorize it and extract and reuse abstractions effectively. What is natural for natural intelligence is still a challenge for AI systems. In this paper, we propose a biologically plausible model of spatiotemporal memory with an attractor module and study its ability to encode sequences and efficiently extract and reuse repetitive patterns. The results of experiments on synthetic and textual data and data from DVS cameras demonstrate a qualitative improvement in the properties of the model when using the attractor module.