Kohonen's Self-Organizing Map in Matlab

This project contains Matlab code implementing a multi-dimensional version of Kohonen's Self-Organizing Map. Like the traditional version, this version can work with a two-dimensional grid, but it also supports mapping to vectors of arbitrary dimensions.

To get started, download and unzip the file som.zip change to the som directory, launch Matlab, and type

  >> addpath src
  >> addpath demo
  >> somdemo(@nicering, 200);

This will run a two-dimensional demo using a ring shape as the input data set. Instead of nicering, you can also use the other nice* shape functions. You can run a three-dimensional example, with the interior of a cube as the data set, by typing

  >> somdemo(@nicecube, 300);

or however iterations you want to try. The src directory contains code that you can use in actual applications. Most users will probably just want to use SOM.M, the two-dimensional grid version. SOMLEARN.M supports learning in higher dimensions. Have fun, and contact levys@wlu.edu with any questions.