Meanings
plural self-organizing maps
- machine learningA kind of artificial neural network trained using competitive learning rather than error correction, and producing a low-dimensional (typically two-dimensional) representation of a higher-dimensional data set while preserving the topological structure of the data.
Synonyms: Kohonen map, Kohonen network, SOM
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA kind of artificial neural network trained using competitive learning rather than error correction, and producing a low-dimensional (typically two-dimensional) representation of a higher-dimensional data set while preserving the topological structure of the data.
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