Self-organizing map
TYPE OF ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK
Self organizing map; Kohonen map; Kohonen; Self Organizing Map; Self-organising map; Self-Organizing Map; Kohonen maps; Self Organising Map; Self-organising maps; Self organising map; Self organizing maps; Self-organizing nets; Self-organizing feature map; Kohonen network; SOFM; Time adaptive self-organizing map
A self-organizing map (SOM) or self-organizing feature map (SOFM) is an unsupervised machine learning technique used to produce a low-dimensional (typically two-dimensional) representation of a higher dimensional data set while preserving the topological structure of the data. For example, a data set with p variables measured in n observations could be represented as clusters of observations with similar values for the variables.