ASSOCIATIVE SELF-ORGANIZING MAP

Magnus Johnsson, Christian Balkenius, Germund Hesslow

2009

Abstract

We present a study of a novel variant of the Self-Organizing Map (SOM) called the Associative Self-Organizing Map (A-SOM). The A-SOM is similar to the SOM and thus develops a representation of its input space, but in addition it also learns to associate its activity with the activity of one or several external SOMs. The A-SOM has relevance in e.g. the modelling of expectations in one modality due to the activity invoked in another modality, and in the modelling of the neuroscientific simulation hypothesis. The paper presents the algorithm generalized to an arbitrary number of associated activities together with simulation results to find out about its performance and its ability to generalize to new inputs that it has not been trained on. The simulation results were very encouraging and confirmed the ability of the A-SOM to learn to associate the representations of its input space with the representations of the input spaces developed in two connected SOMs. Good generalization ability was also demonstrated.

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Johnsson M., Balkenius C. and Hesslow G. (2009). ASSOCIATIVE SELF-ORGANIZING MAP . In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence - Volume 1: ICNC, (IJCCI 2009) ISBN 978-989-674-014-6, pages 363-370. DOI: 10.5220/0002318403630370


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@conference{icnc09,
author={Magnus Johnsson and Christian Balkenius and Germund Hesslow},
title={ASSOCIATIVE SELF-ORGANIZING MAP},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence - Volume 1: ICNC, (IJCCI 2009)},
year={2009},
pages={363-370},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002318403630370},
isbn={978-989-674-014-6},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence - Volume 1: ICNC, (IJCCI 2009)
TI - ASSOCIATIVE SELF-ORGANIZING MAP
SN - 978-989-674-014-6
AU - Johnsson M.
AU - Balkenius C.
AU - Hesslow G.
PY - 2009
SP - 363
EP - 370
DO - 10.5220/0002318403630370