A Neural Sheet Discovers the Shape of Data
A self-organizing map (SOM) starts as a flat sheet of neurons with no knowledge of the data around it. For every input sample, it finds the best-matching neuron,
c = argminᵢ ‖x - wᵢ‖,
and updates that neuron together with its neighbours,
wᵢ ← wᵢ + η(t)hᶜᵢ(t)(x - wᵢ).
As the neighbourhood radius shrinks during training, the sheet gradually bends and folds onto the hidden geometry of the dataset while preserving its neighbourhood structure.
Developed by Finnish computer scientist Teuvo Kohonen, the Self-Organizing Map remains one of the most elegant examples of competitive learning, where order emerges from thousands of simple local updates.
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