self-organizing maps

A form of self-organizing map — A 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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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of self-organizing map
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