Recursive self-organizing map as a contractive iterative function system

Abstract

Recently, there has been a considerable research activity in extending topographic maps of vectorial data to more general data structures, such as sequences or trees. However, the representational capabilities and internal representations of the models are not well understood. We rigorously analyze a generalization of the Self-Organizing Map (SOM) for processing sequential data, Recursive SOM (RecSOM [1]), as a non-autonomous dynamical system consisting off a set of fixed input maps. We show that contractive fixed input maps are likely to produce Markovian organizations of receptive fields o the RecSOM map. We derive bounds on parameter $\beta$ (weighting the importance of importing past information when processing sequences) under which contractiveness of the fixed input maps is guaranteed.

Divisions: College of Engineering & Physical Sciences > Systems analytics research institute (SARI)
ISBN: 978-3-540-26972-4
Last Modified: 29 Nov 2023 13:44
Date Deposited: 07 Jan 2010 14:21
Full Text Link: 10.1007/11508069_43
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PURE Output Type: Chapter
Published Date: 2005-06-20
Authors: Tiňo, Peter
Farkaš, Igor
van Mourik, Jort

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