Diffusion Self-Organizing Map on the Hypersphere
arXiv:2106.00014v1
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This is an incremental improvement for researchers in machine learning, offering a more efficient method for self-organizing maps on hyperspheres.
The paper tackles the implementation of a diffusion-based self-organizing map on the unit hypersphere, demonstrating efficient computation with linear algebra and providing a Python numpy implementation, illustrated using the MNIST dataset.
We discuss a diffusion based implementation of the self-organizing map on the unit hypersphere. We show that this approach can be efficiently implemented using just linear algebra methods, we give a python numpy implementation, and we illustrate the approach using the well known MNIST dataset.