Supervised Neural Gas with General Similarity Measure

  • Authors:
  • Barbara Hammer;Marc Strickert;Thomas Villmann

  • Affiliations:
  • Aff1 Aff2;Aff1 Aff2;Aff1 Aff2

  • Venue:
  • Neural Processing Letters
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Prototype based classification offers intuitive and sparse models with excellent generalization ability. However, these models usually crucially depend on the underlying Euclidian metric; moreover, online variants likely suffer from the problem of local optima. We here propose a generalization of learning vector quantization with three additional features: (I) it directly integrates neighborhood cooperation, hence is less affected by local optima; (II) the method can be combined with any differentiable similarity measure whereby metric parameters such as relevance factors of the input dimensions can automatically be adapted according to the given data; (III) it obeys a gradient dynamics hence shows very robust behavior, and the chosen objective is related to margin optimization.