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I think the inspiration came to me from looking at SumTrees and from having worked on Temporal Difference learning for a long time. The idea of flows came to Yo
by manux 5y ago
I think the inspiration came to me from looking at SumTrees and from having worked on Temporal Difference learning for a long time. The idea of flows came to Yoshua and I from the realization that we wanted some kind of energy conservation/preservation mechanism from having multiple paths lead to the same state.
But, yes in the moment it felt like some very serendipitous insight!
- cs702 5y agoThank you. It's nice to hear that you had one of those shower/bathtub Eureka moments! > ...we wanted some kind of energy conservation/preservation mechanism from having multiple paths lead to the same state Makes sense. FWIW, to me this looks like a Conservation Law -- as in Physics. I mean, it's not that the flows "must be" conserved, but that they are conserved (or go into sinks). Any physicists interested in AI should be all over this; it's right up their alley.