Autonomous and deterministic probabilistic neural network using global k-means

Authors:
Roy Kwang Yang Chang;Chu Kiong Loo;Machavaram V. C. Rao
Affiliations:
Faculty of Information Science and Technology, Mutilmedia University, Melaka, Malaysia;Faculty of Engineering Technology, Mutilmedia University, Melaka, Malaysia;Faculty of Engineering Technology, Mutilmedia University, Melaka, Malaysia
Venue:
ISNN'06 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Advances in Neural Networks - Volume Part I
Year:
2006

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Abstract

We present a comparative study between Expectation-Maximization (EM) trained probabilistic neural network (PNN) with random initialization and with initialization from Global k-means. To make the results more comprehensive, the algorithm was tested on both homoscedastic and heteroscedastic PNNs. Normally, user have to define the number of clusters through trial and error method, which makes random initialization to be of stochastic nature. Global k-means was chosen as the initialization method because it can autonomously find the number of clusters using a selection criterion and can provide deterministic clustering results. The proposed algorithm was tested on benchmark datasets and real world data from the cooling water system in a power plant.