Self Organizing Maps (SOMs) are widely used mapping and clustering algorithms family. It is also well known that the performances of the maps in terms of quality of result and learning speed are strongly dependent from the neuron weights initialization. This drawback is common to all the SOM algorithms, and critical for a new SOM algorithm, the Median SOM (M-SOM), developed in order to map datasets characterized by a dissimilarity matrix. In this paper an initialization technique of M-SOM is proposed and compared to the initialization techniques proposed in the original paper. The results show that the proposed initialization technique assures faster learning and better performance in terms of quantization error. © 2008 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
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Fiannaca, A., Rizzo, R., Urso, A., & Gaglio, S. (2008). A new SOM initialization algorithm for nonvectorial data. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 5177 LNAI, pp. 41–48). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85563-7_11
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