Hinton, McClelland & Rumelhart, Distributed Representations, PDP vol. 1 ch. 3, 1986 · pp. 87–93, fig. 3
Coarse Coding & the Hypercylinder
Why broad, overlapping receptive fields pinpoint a feature more accurately
units n
radius r
÷2 r
×2 r
line L
angle
New line direction
New centres
other points
Move probe
probe along the line
interception cylinder
grid of the same n
Feature space
The code at the probe
The line as a barcode
a tick for every change of code from A to B
Monte Carlo check
Run the check