Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Self Organizing Maps

There is also an added difficulty, which is that for SOM to be interesting, they rely on specifying a topology. Most implementations use a somewhat restrictive topology that is useful only for a small number of applications,  for instance a 2D embedding topology. A general implementation is more

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Self Organizing Maps

The thing is: I have rarely seen a compelling use. If you have a use-case where the algorithms you listed out-perform things that are already in scikit-learn, I think we'd be happy to adopt them. Until now, I haven't seen a great application. -

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Self Organizing Maps

-1 SOM are old - i haven't seen any jmlr/simialr results with them published in years On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 11:28 PM, Maheshakya Wijewardena < pmaheshak...@gmail.com> wrote: > There was an attempt along this line some time ago. You may like to have a > look in this issue and the PR to get an id

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Self Organizing Maps

There was an attempt along this line some time ago. You may like to have a look in this issue and the PR to get an idea about how they can fit in. 1. Add Self Organising Map as a clustering algorithm. 2. Self-Organizing Map

[Scikit-learn-general] Self Organizing Maps

Hi, I noticed that Scikit-Learn doesn't have an implementation of Self Organizing Maps and its variants. Admittedly, SOMs are quite outdated, but there are some more general variants of them that are quite frequently used. Some examples are Growing Self Organizing Maps Operator SOMs Kernel SOMs a