Modular Network SOM: Self-Organizing Maps in Function Space
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Abstract — This study presents a new concept that generalizes the self-organizing map (SOM) by adopting the idea of modular network, which we call “modular network SOM (mnSOM)”. In the mnSOM, each codebook vector in the conventional SOM is replaced by a functional module which is a neural network. With mnSOM, the application targets can be widely expanded from fields involving vectorized data to those dealing with more general classes of datasets relevant to functions, systems, time series and so on. In this paper, the idea, the architecture and the algorithms are described for mnSOM, along with some simulation results.
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