Additive Composition of Supervised Self-Organizing Maps

  • Authors:
  • Jean-Luc Buessler;Jean-Philippe Urban;Julien Gresser

  • Affiliations:
  • TROP Research Group, 4 rue des Frères Lumière, F-68093 Mulhouse Cedex, France.;TROP Research Group, 4 rue des Frères Lumière, F-68093 Mulhouse Cedex, France. E-mail: JP.Urban@univ-mulhouse.fr;TROP Research Group, 4 rue des Frères Lumière, F-68093 Mulhouse Cedex, France.

  • Venue:
  • Neural Processing Letters
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

The learning of complex relationships can be decomposed into several neural networks. The modular organization is determined by prior knowledge of the problem that permits to split the processing into tasks of small dimensionality. The sub-tasks can be implemented with neural networks, although the learning examples cannot be used anymore to supervise directly each of the networks. This article addresses the problem of learning in a modular context, developing in particular additive compositions. A simple rule allows defining efficient training, and combining, for example, several Supervised-SOM networks. This technique is important because it introduces interesting generalizations in many modular compositions, permitting data fusion or sequential combinations of neural networks.