What makes topographic map boundaries parsimonious?

Gas Turbine Performance—what Makes the Map?

The power and efficiency characteristics of a gas turbine are the result of a complex interaction of different turbomachines and a combustion system. This tutorial addresses the basic characteristics of each of the components, and defines the rules under which they interact, as well as typical control limits and control concepts. Important nondimensional characteristics such as Mach number and ...

Polymeric Gas Separation Membranes: What Makes them Industrially more Attractive?

Relational Generative Topographic Map

The generative topographic mapping (GTM) has been proposed as a statistical model to represent high dimensional data by means of a sparse lattice of points in latent space, such that visualization, compression, and data inspection become possible. Original GTM is restricted to Euclidean data points in a vector space. Often, data are not explicitly embedded in a Euclidean vector space, rather pa...

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Maximum Likelihood Topographic Map Formation

We introduce a new unsupervised learning algorithm for kernel-based topographic map formation of heteroscedastic gaussian mixtures that allows for a unified account of distortion error (vector quantization), log-likelihood, and Kullback-Leibler divergence.