Self-Organizing Map

 

• Artificial neural networks
• Self-Organizing Map (SOM)
  • Data preprocessing
    • Focusing on a subset of data
    • Removing erroneous data
    • Data encoding
    • Scaling
  • Initialization
    • Random initialization
    • Initialization using initial samples
    • Linear initialization
  • Training
    • Update rule
    • Neighborhood function
    • Learning rate
  • Visualization
    • U-matrix
    • Sammon's mapping
    • Component plane representation
  • Validation
• Applications