A SOM PROJECTION TECHNIQUE WITH THE GROWING STRUCTURE FOR VISUALIZING HIGH-DIMENSIONAL DATA
Abstract
The Self-Organizing Map (SOM) is an efficient tool for visualizing high-dimensional data. In this paper, an intuitive and effective SOM projection method is proposed for mapping high-dimensional data onto the two-dimensional grid structure with a growing self-organizing mechanism. In the learning phase, a growing SOM is trained and the growing cell structure is used as the baseline framework. In the ordination phase, the new projection method is used to map the input vector so that the input data is mapped to the structure of the SOM without having to plot the weight values, resulting in easy visualization of the data. The projection method is demonstrated on four different data sets, including a 118 patent data set and a 399 checical abstract data set related to polymer cements, with promising results and a significantly reduced network size.
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