January 2021
Intermediate to advanced
200 pages
6h 22m
English
Self-organizing maps commonly designated by SOFM (for Self-organizing Feature Maps, or SOM for Self-organizing Maps) were introduced by T. Kohonen in 1981 [2], inspired by how human brain topographic maps work, where near points in the human body are represented by groups of nearby neurons in the brain. These maps are not uniform, and are the most sensitive surface of the human body and are represented by a cluster containing the largest number of neurons. From an IT point of view, we can translate this property as follows: suppose we have a set of data that we want to classify. We are looking for a mode of representation such as objects neighbours are classified in the same class or in neighbouring ...
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