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Parameter prediction is essential for many applications, facilitating insightful interpretation and decision-making. However, in many real life domains, such as power systems, medicine, and engineering, it can be very expensive to acquire…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Zimeng Lyu , Alexander Ororbia , Rui Li , Travis Desell

The growing amount of data produced by simulations and observations of space physics processes encourages the use of methods rooted in Machine Learning for data analysis and physical discovery. We apply a clustering method based on…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-04-27 Sophia Köhne , Elisabetta Boella , Maria Elena Innocenti

Self-Organising Maps (SOMs) are effective tools in classification problems, and in recent years the even more powerful Dynamic Growing Neural Networks, a variant of SOMs, have been developed. Automatic Classification (also called…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 P. Boinee , A. De Angelis , E. Milotti

We present a method to refine photometric redshift galaxy catalogs by comparing their color-space matching with overlapping spectroscopic calibration data. We focus on cases where photometric redshifts (photo-$z$) are estimated empirically.…

The self-organizing map (SOM) is an unsupervised artificial neural network that is widely used in, e.g., data mining and visualization. Supervised and semi-supervised learning methods have been proposed for the SOM. However, their teacher…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Akinari Onishi

Sustainable water quality underpins ecological balance and water security. Assessing and managing lakes and reservoirs is difficult due to data sparsity, heterogeneity, and nonlinear relationships among parameters. This review examines how…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Oraib Almegdadi , João Marcelino , Sarah Fakhreddine , João Manso , Nuno C. Marques

SOM is a type of unsupervised learning where the goal is to discover some underlying structure of the data. In this paper, a new extraction method based on the main idea of Concurrent Self-Organizing Maps (CSOM), representing a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-08-21 Mohammed M. Abdelsamea

We examine a general framework for visualizing datasets of high (> 2) dimensionality, and demonstrate it using the morphology of galaxies at moderate redshifts. The distributions of various populations of such galaxies are examined in a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Naim , K. U. Ratnatunga , R. E. Griffiths

There has been an increasing interest in semi-supervised learning in the recent years because of the great number of datasets with a large number of unlabeled data but only a few labeled samples. Semi-supervised learning algorithms can work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Pedro H. M. Braga , Hansenclever F. Bassani

This paper demonstrates a novel and efficient unsupervised clustering method with the combination of a Self-Organising Map (SOM) and a convolutional autoencoder. The rapidly increasing volume of radio-astronomical data has increased demand…

Self-Organizing Maps (SOM) are popular unsupervised artificial neural network used to reduce dimensions and visualize data. Visual interpretation from Self-Organizing Maps (SOM) has been limited due to grid approach of data representation,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2013-01-03 Aaditya Prakash

The interpretation of ligand-target interactions at atomistic resolution is central to most efforts in computational drug discovery and optimization. However, the highly dynamic nature of protein targets, as well as possible induced fit…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-12-04 Lara Callea , Camilla Caprai , Laura Bonati , Toni Giorgino , Stefano Motta

Nowadays, with the advance of technology, there is an increasing amount of unstructured data being generated every day. However, it is a painful job to label and organize it. Labeling is an expensive, time-consuming, and difficult task. It…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Pedro H. M. Braga , Heitor R. Medeiros , Hansenclever F. Bassani

The Self-Organizing Map (SOM) with its related extensions is the most popular artificial neural algorithm for use in unsupervised learning, clustering, classification and data visualization. Over 5,000 publications have been reported in the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2011-11-09 Marie Cottrell , Michel Verleysen

A crucial step in planet hunting surveys is to select the best candidates for follow up observations, given limited telescope resources. This is often performed by human `eyeballing', a time consuming and statistically awkward process. Here…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-25 David J. Armstrong , Don Pollacco , Alexandre Santerne

Self-Organizing Maps (SOM) are a classical method for unsupervised learning, vector quantization, and topographic mapping of high-dimensional data. However, existing SOM formulations often involve a trade-off between computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Seiki Ubukata , Akira Notsu , Katsuhiro Honda

Spectroscopic datasets are essential for training and calibrating photometric redshift (photo-$z$) methods. However, spectroscopic redshifts (spec-$z$'s) constitute a biased and sparse sampling of the photometric galaxy population, which…

In many research fields, the sizes of the existing datasets vary widely. Hence, there is a need for machine learning techniques which are well-suited for these different datasets. One possible technique is the self-organizing map (SOM), a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-09 Felix M. Riese , Sina Keller

This paper introduces an incremental semantic mapping approach, with on-line unsupervised learning, based on Self-Organizing Maps (SOM) for robotic agents. The method includes a mapping module, which incrementally creates a topological map…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Ygor C. N. Sousa , Hansenclever F. Bassani

Texture is one of the most important properties of visual surface that helps in discriminating one object from another or an object from background. The self-organizing map (SOM) is an excellent tool in exploratory phase of data mining. It…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-08-20 Marghny H. Mohamed , Mohammed M. Abdelsamea