A mathematical analysis on the distribution-preserving property of Self-Organizing Map (SOM)

• Main Author: Llorin, Jason D.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 1998
• Subjects: Mathematical analysis; Neural networks (Computer science); Self-organizing systems; Memory maps (Computer science); Algorithms; Computer Sciences
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_masteral/1860
• Institution: De La Salle University

Self-organizing maps (SOM) are among the more popular neural network models first studied by Teuvo Kohonen in the early 1980's. In this model, learning is unsupervised and the units organize themselves in a way that reflects the inter-relationships of the inputs they represent. Kohonen proposed...