Unsupervised Learning Series —Exploring Self-Organizing Maps

Learn how Self-Organizing Maps work and why they are a useful unsupervised learning algorithm

Ivo Bernardo
Towards Data Science
16 min readAug 6, 2023

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Self-Organizing Maps (SOMs) are a type of unsupervised neural network utilized for clustering and visualization of high-dimensional data. SOMs are trained using a competitive learning algorithm, in which…

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