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Extended Self Organizing Feature Map: A Tagged Potential Field Approach

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This paper proposes an escape methodology to the local minima problem of self organizing feature maps generated in the overlapping regions which are equidistant to the corresponding winners. Two new versions of the Self Organizing Feature Map are derived equipped with such a methodology. The first approach introduces an excitation term, which increases the convergence speed and efficiency of the algorithm, while increasing the probability of escaping from local minima. In the second approach, we associate a learning set which specifies the attractive and repulsive field of output neurons. Results indicate that accuracy percentile of the new methods are higher than the original algorithm while they have the ability to escape from local minima.

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  1. Department of Computer Engineering, Middle East Technical University, 06531, Ankara, Turkey, e-mail

    Nazife Baykal

  2. Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Middle East Technical University, 06531, Ankara, Turkey, e-mail

    Aydan M. Erkmen

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Baykal, N., Erkmen, A.M. Extended Self Organizing Feature Map: A Tagged Potential Field Approach. Neural Processing Letters 10, 57–72 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1018662813803

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