A novel Self-Organizing Map (SOM) learning algorithm with nearest and farthest neurons

The Self-Organizing Map (SOM) has applications like dimension reduction, data clustering, image analysis, and many others. In conventional SOM, the weights of the winner and its neighboring neurons are updated regardless of their distance from the input vector. In the proposed SOM, the farthest and...

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Main Authors: Vikas Chaudhary, R.S. Bhatia, Anil K. Ahlawat
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2014-12-01
Series:Alexandria Engineering Journal
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1110016814000970