Self-Organizing Maps (SOM): What are they and how to use them?
Self-Organizing Maps, or SOM, represent a form of artificial neural network (ANN) employed for unsupervised learning. They facilitate the reduction of data dimensionality while retaining their topological structure, thus offering a robust tool for clustering and data exploration. Unlike traditional neural networks, self-organizing maps function via competitive learning as opposed to error correction. They incorporate […]
