Growing Self-Organizing Map with cross insert for mixed-type data clustering

  • Authors:
  • Wei-Shen Tai;Chung-Chian Hsu

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Information Management, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, 123 University Road, Section 3, Douliou, Yunlin, Taiwan, ROC;Department of Information Management, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, 123 University Road, Section 3, Douliou, Yunlin, Taiwan, ROC

  • Venue:
  • Applied Soft Computing
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Self-Organizing Map (SOM) possesses effective capability for visualizing high-dimensional data. Therefore, SOM has numerous applications in visualized clustering. Many growing SOMs have been proposed to overcome the constraint of having a fixed map size in conventional SOMs. However, most growing SOMs lack a robust solution to process mixed-type data which may include numeric, ordinal and categorical values in a dataset. Moreover, the growing scheme has an impact on the quality of resultant maps. In this paper, we propose a Growing Mixed-type SOM (GMixSOM), combining a value representation mechanism distance hierarchy with a novel growing scheme to tackle the problem of analyzing mixed-type data and to improve the quality of the projection map. Experimental results on synthetic and real-world datasets demonstrate that the proposed mechanism is feasible and the growing scheme yields better projection maps than the existing method.