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Unsupervised Learning: Self-Organization: Kohonen Network and Feature Mapping

The document discusses Kohonen networks, an unsupervised learning technique that forms its own classification of data through self-organization. Unlike supervised networks, Kohonen networks cluster data into groups with common features without explicitly specified outputs. While Kohonen networks perform clustering, they also organize clusters in a one- or multi-dimensional space based on similarity between cluster centroids, drawing motivation from how the brain spatially maps different tasks and regions.

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Unsupervised Learning: Self-Organization: Kohonen Network and Feature Mapping

The document discusses Kohonen networks, an unsupervised learning technique that forms its own classification of data through self-organization. Unlike supervised networks, Kohonen networks cluster data into groups with common features without explicitly specified outputs. While Kohonen networks perform clustering, they also organize clusters in a one- or multi-dimensional space based on similarity between cluster centroids, drawing motivation from how the brain spatially maps different tasks and regions.

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Kohonen Network and Feature Mapping

Unsupervised Learning:

Self-Organization

In many problems it is useful to have a system that forms its own


classification of the data from the training examples. In these types
of problems, unsupervised learning networks (e.g., the Kohonen
network) are applicable. Unlike a supervised learning network,
where the training examples must be explicitly specified at the
output, an unsupervised Kohonen network clusters the data into
groups that have common features. Hence the Kohonen network is
often called a "feature-mapping network."
Although the Kohonen network can be viewed as a clustering
algorithm, the clustering it forms is very special. The network not
only groups the input patterns into various clusters, it organizes the
clusters in a one- or multidimensional space according to similarity
of the cluster centroids themselves (see figures 2.6a and 2.6b). The
motivation of the method is drawn from the knowledge that the brain
utilizes spatial mappings: different sensory and cognitive tasks are
localized in different regions of the brain, and these regions have a
definite topological order. See box for the Kohonen self-organizing
neural network (SONN) algorithm.

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