# BTSP - binary, sparse, content addressable memory learning algorithm

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**Created:** [January 8, 2025, 10:43pm UTC](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/btsp-binary-sparse-content-addressable-memory-learning-algorithm/11693 "2025-01-08T22:43:35Z")\
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Is anybody familiar with BTSP? Behavioral Timescale Synaptic Plasticity.  
I just heard about it from new Wolfgang Maass paper.

Sounds like it builds on other work on BTSP, but they make it work for binary synaptic weights (multiple synapses between 2 neurons)

[https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-55563-6](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-55563-6)