Title :
A self-organizing neural structure for concept formation from incomplete observation
Author :
Homma, Noriyasu ; Gupta, Madan M.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Radiol. Technol., Tohoku Univ., Sendai, Japan
Abstract :
We propose a self-organizing neural structure with dynamic and spatial changing weights for a feature space representation of concept formation. An essential core of this self-organization is based on an unsupervised learning with incomplete information for the dynamic changing and an extended Hebbian rule for the spatial changing. A concept formation problem requires the neural network to acquire the complete feature space structure of a concept information using an incomplete observation of the concept. The connection structure or self-organizing network can store with the information structure by using the two rules. The Hebbian rule can create a necessary connection corresponding to a feature space substructure of the complete information. On the other hand, unsupervised learning can delete unnecessary connections. Finally concept formation ability of the proposed neural network is proven under some conditions.
Keywords :
Hebbian learning; self-organising feature maps; unsupervised learning; concept formation; connection structure; dynamic weights; extended Hebbian rule; feature space representation; feature space substructure; incomplete information; incomplete observation; self-organizing neural structure; spatial changing weights; unsupervised learning; Backpropagation algorithms; Biological neural networks; Cognition; Educational institutions; Intelligent structures; Intelligent systems; Laboratories; Shape; Space technology; Unsupervised learning;
Conference_Titel :
Neural Networks, 2003. Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7898-9
DOI :
10.1109/IJCNN.2003.1223979