An Incremental Local Distribution Network for Unsupervised Learning

  • Youlu Xing
  • Tongyi Cao
  • Ke Zhou
  • Furao Shen
  • Jinxi Zhao
Conference paper
Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 9077)

Abstract

We present an Incremental Local Distribution Network (ILDN) for unsupervised learning, which combines the merits of matrix learning and incremental learning. It stores local distribution information in each node with covariant matrix and uses a vigilance parameter with statistical support to decide whether to extend the network. It has a statistics based merging mechanism and thus can obtain a precise and concise representation of the learning data called relaxation representation. Moreover, the denoising process based on data density makes ILDN robust to noise and practically useful. Experiments on artificial and real-world data in both “closed” and “open-ended” environment show the better accuracy, conciseness, and efficiency of ILDN over other methods.

Keywords

Incremental learning Matrix learning Relaxation representation 

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Youlu Xing
    • 1
  • Tongyi Cao
    • 2
  • Ke Zhou
    • 3
  • Furao Shen
    • 1
  • Jinxi Zhao
    • 1
  1. 1.National Key Laboratory for Novel Software TechnologyDepartment of Computer Science and Technology at Nanjing UniversityNanjingChina
  2. 2.School of Physics at Nanjing UniversityNanjingChina
  3. 3.School of Statistics at University of International Business and EconomicsBejingChina

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