Anybody used Neural Network approaches for clustering data? Particularly
- ART Neural Network (Adaptive Resonance Theory) or
- Kohonen self organizing maps
How are they as compared to k-means or any other distance based clustering Algorithms?
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Self-organizing maps (SOMs) have some internal similarities with K-Means, but also important differences. A SOM actually maps your data from the original data space (usually high-dimensional) onto the map space (usually two-dimensional), while trying to preserve the original data densities and neighborhood relationships. It won’t give you directly the clustering, but may help you to visually inspect the data and recognize clusters.
I know too little about ART nets.