Unsupervised learning

Unsupervised learning

In machine learning, unsupervised learning is a class of problems in which one seeks to determine how the data are organised. It is distinguished from supervised learning (and reinforcement learning) in that there are only inputs, and no outputs.

Unsupervised learning is closely related to the problem of density estimation in statistics. However unsupervised learning also encompasses many other techniques which seek to summarise and explain key features of the data.

One form of unsupervised learning is clustering. Among neural network models, the Self-Organizing Map and Adaptive resonance theory (ART) are commonly used unsupervised learning algorithms. The ART model allows the number of clusters to vary with problem size and lets the user control the degree of similarity between members of the same clusters by means of a user-defined constant called the vigilance parameter. ART networks are also used for many pattern recognition tasks, such as automatic target recognition and seismic signal processing. The first version of ART was "ART1", developed by Carpenter and Grossberg(1988).

Bibliography

* Geoffrey Hinton, Terrence J. Sejnowski (editors) (1999) Unsupervised Learning and Map Formation: Foundations of Neural Computation, MIT Press, ISBN 0-262-58168-X (This book focuses on unsupervised learning in neural networks.)

* S. Kotsiantis, P. Pintelas, Recent Advances in Clustering: A Brief Survey, WSEAS Transactions on Information Science and Applications, Vol 1, No 1 (73-81), 2004.

* Richard O. Duda, Peter E. Hart, David G. Stork. Unsupervised Learning and Clustering, Ch. 10 in "Pattern classification" (2nd edition), p. 571, Wiley, New York, ISBN 0-471-05669-3, 2001.

See also

* Artificial neural network
* Data clustering
* Expectation-maximization algorithm
* Self-organizing map
* Radial basis function network
* Generative topographic map


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