Self Organizing Map
Self Organizing Map Ideas first introduced by C. von der Malsburg (1973) and developed and refined by T. Kohonen (1982) It is a type of Unsupervised competitive learning. It is primarily used for the organization and visualization of complex data. SOM Architecture It is two layers of Neuron Architecture 1. Input layer 2.Output Layer. Each input Neuron is connected to each output Neuron.It is fully connected Network. The output map usually has two dimensions. O ne and three dimensions are also used Neurons in output map can be laid out in different patterns o Rectangular o Hexagonal o Random SOM Training “Neighbourhood” is a n important concept in SOM training. The output map neurons that adjoin the winner Neighborhood size describes the distance between neighbors and the winning neuron. Neighbors weights are also modified Neighb