Initialization of Self-Organizing Maps: Principal Components Versus Random Initialization. A Case Study
The performance of the Self-Organizing Map (SOM) algorithm is dependent on the initial weights of the map. The different initialization methods can broadly be classified into random and data analysis based initialization approach. In this paper, the performance of random initialization (RI) approach is compared to that of principal component initialization (PCI) in which the initial map weights are chosen from the space of the principal component. Performance is evaluated by the fraction of variance unexplained (FVU). Datasets were classified into quasi-linear and non-linear and it was observed that RI performed better for non-linear datasets; however the performance of PCI approach remains inconclusive for quasi-linear datasets.
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