Diffusion Self-Organizing Map on the Hypersphere

05/31/2021

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by   M. Andrecut, et al.

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We discuss a diffusion based implementation of the self-organizing map on the unit hypersphere. We show that this approach can be efficiently implemented using just linear algebra methods, we give a python numpy implementation, and we illustrate the approach using the well known MNIST dataset.