KanervaSDM PyPI Package

Previously I developed Python and C++ code as part of a variety of experiments Sparse Distributed Memory (SDM)¹, a computational model of human memory, found here.

In an effort to make SDM easier to use for myself and more accessible to others, I created a Python package and published it to PyPI, the Python Package Index.

The core of the package is an optimized C++ implementation of SDM based on my previous Python code. Using C++ code allows SDM functionality to be approximately six times faster than it is when implemented using pure Python code. The C++ header file is connected to Python using a bindings file written in C++ using the pybind11 library.

¹ Sparse Distributed Memory was introduced by Pentti Kanerva in 1988. My work is based on his 1992 technical report “Sparse Distributed Memory and Related Models”.