Key to notation:
Date |
Topic |
Lecture Notes |
Homework/Reading/Experiment Assignment |
Optional Reading |
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Aug 24 |
Class canceled by Rice University |
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Aug 26 |
Orientation, Introduction, Motivations |
Reading: Kohonen Ch3; and Kohonen, IEEE 2013
due Aug 31
Refresh Competitive Learning from COMP / ELEC / STAT 502 Refresh SOM exercises from COMP / ELEC / STAT 502 |
Haykin Ch9.1-9.6 |
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Aug 31 | Introduction, prototype-based learning (EM) Discussion of course topics and assignments; | NML-II-intro.h.ppt.pdf | Reading assignment for Sep 7, Sep 9 include:
Ultsch&Siemon, 1990; Cottrell&deBodt, 1995; Kraaijveld et al., 1995 Details of individual reading and paper presentation assignments: R&P_assignments-01 |
Haykin Ch9.1-9.6 | ||||||
Sep 2 | Review of the basic SOM, and visualization schemes Review of approach to manifold learning with neural maps, EM |
NML-II-intro.h.ppt.pdf |
Refresh Competitive Learning from COMP / ELEC / STAT 502
Refresh SOM exercises from COMP / ELEC / STAT 502 |
Haykin Ch9.1-9.6 | ||||||
Sep 7 | SOM visualizations: student presentations | Haykin Ch9.1-9.6 | ||||||||
Sep 9 | SOM visualizations: student presentations | Reading assignment for class on Sep 14:
Martinetz and Schulten, 1994
no student presentations from this paper |
Haykin Ch9.1-9.6 | |||||||
Sep 14 | Class cancelled by Rice U for hurricane Nicholas | Haykin Ch9.1-9.6 | ||||||||
Sep 16 | Introduction to Topology Representing Networks (EM) | TRN.h.ppt.pdf | Reading assignment for Sep 21: Tasdemir and Merenyi, IEEE TNN 2009 "CONN paper".
No student presentations from this paper. |
Haykin Ch9.1-9.6 | ||||||
Sep 21 |
Introduction to Topology Representing Networks, wrap-up (EM)
CONN and CONNvis (EM) |
CONNandCONNvis.ppt.pdf | Experiment assignment: Experiment-01-SOMvis due Sep 28 | |||||||
Sep 23 | CONN and CONNvis cont'd (EM) | CONNandCONNvis.ppt.pdf |
Reading assignment for All for classes on Oct 5, Oct 7, Oct 1, no reviews:
Bauer and Pawelzik 1992 (Topographic Product); Villmann et al. 1997 (Topographic Function); Zhang and Merényi (Weighted Differential Topographic Function), 2006 deBodt, Cottrell, Verleysen, 2002 (STAB) or Hamel, WSOM 2016; Paper presentation assignments: R&P_assignments-02 |
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Sep 28 | Presentation and discussion of SOM visualization experiments | Experiment assignment: Experiment-01-SOMvis due Sep 28 | ||||||||
Sep 30 | TBD | |||||||||
Oct 5 | Introduction to NeuroScope | Handouts: Instructions, basic operations | ||||||||
Oct 7 |
Assigned student presentations on topology preservation measures and other SOM quality measures.
(Two talks, and discussion, as schdeuled in Paper presentation assignments R&P_assignments-02.) |
Sample scripts / tutorials for SOM learning / recall
Sample scripts for computing topology preservation measures |
Assignment: Experiment-02 (topology measures) due Oct 19 | |||||||
Oct 12 | NO CLASS (Fall recess) | |||||||||
Oct 14 |
Assigned student presentations on topology preservation measures and other SOM quality measures, cont'd.
(as scheduled in Paper presentation assignments R&P_assignments-02.) Variants of SOMs / neural maps: introduction and CSOM (EM) |
Conscious-SOM.ppt.pdf | ||||||||
Oct 19 |
Student presentation of Experiment-02 results.
Practical items; data and case studies (EM) |
Sample scripts /tutorial for SOM learning / recall
Sample scripts for computing topology preservation measures |
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Oct 21 |
Student presentation of Experiment-02 results, wrap-up.
Cluster capture from SOM; Practical items |
Paper reading and presentation assignments R&P_assignments-03 for class on Oct 28. | ||||||||
Oct 26 | Overview of clustering methods (as unsupervised learning); cluster capture from SOMs / neural maps; case studies on complex data; comparison of embeddings (EM) |
Experiment-03 assignment due Nov 2:
Compare KSOM, CSOM, and K-means clusterings on data sets suggested in
Experiment-03. Show side-by-side comparisons from the three methods. Results to be discussed in class on Nov 2, 15 minutes, 5-6 slides per student. |
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Oct 28 |
Clustering algorithms:
Student presentations of clustering algorithms as per R&P_assignments-03. |
Paper reading and presentation assignments R&P_assignments-04 for Nov 4. Topic: Clustering the SOM, Cluster Validity Indices. | ||||||||
Nov 2 |
Student presentations of Experiment-03
Clustering of the SOM; Cluster Validity Indices - intro/discussion by EM |
Paper presentation assignments: R&P_assignments-05 for classes on Nov 11 and 16.
Topic: Variants of SOMs |
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Nov 4 | Assigned student presentations of Cluster Validity Indices, as scheduled in R&P_assignments-04. | |||||||||
Nov 9 |
Cluster Validity Indices: Assigned student presentations of Cluster Validity Indices, as scheduled in Experiment-04 Cluster Validity Indices.
Clustering, quality measures, wrap-up. Case studies. (EM) |
DMML-2018-Lecture.pdf | ||||||||
Nov 11 |
Variants of SOMs part 1: Assigned student presentations as scheduled in R&P_assignments-05.
SOM-supported supervised classification; SOM Magnification (EM) Project discussion. |
NML-II_SOM-hybrid-classification.pdf | ||||||||
Nov 16 |
Variants of SOMs part 2: Assigned student presentations as scheduled in R&P_assignments-05.
SOM Magnification (EM) Project discussion. |
NML-II_SOM-Magnification.pdf |
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