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- From: swarnama@iti.gov.sg (S. Swarnamala)
- Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
- Subject: Clustering Algorithms - some basic issues
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.043929.7753@iti.gov.sg>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 04:39:29 GMT
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- Sender: news@iti.gov.sg (News Admin)
- Reply-To: swarnama@iti.gov.sg
- Organization: Information Technology Institute, National Computer Board, S'pore
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- Hello fellow netters,
- I am trying to use RBF-based hybrid network for prediction. I follow the design as is given
- in literature - Single hidden layer feed forward BP-net with linear output nodes and
- guassian hidden nodes. I also use additional nodes each of input dimension for every
- hidden unit (intruduced for improving prediction). I have simulated this net using around
- 100 guassians for a 12 dimensional input of around 400 input sample size
- (could be oversized - I don't know).
-
- I have some fundamental questions regarding this :
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- 1) The unsupervised part of learning in this context is basically a process of clustering
- all the input patterns of N-dimension. The common way of quantifying the tightness of
- clustering is sum((Eu)dist of each pattern from its closest cluster center). What should
- this measure be for a good clustering? OR in other words " Is there a bench mark against
- which the quality for a given clustered sample could be compared ( such as Average Relative
- Variance for prediction)"
-
- 2) Is there any empirical relation between no: of attractors (cluster centres), input
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- pattern dimension and no: of patterns to be clustered ?
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- 3) Any figures of reasonable input dimension for which RBF network size will be manageble ?
-
- I request for answers to these queries. Also am thankful for any pointers to literature
- discussing these issues . I shall summarise the replies I get on this news-group.
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- Srirengan Swarnamala,
- Knowledge Systems Lab,
- Information Technology Institute,
- National Computer Board of Singapore.
- (E-mail : (Internet) swarnama@iti.gov.sg
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