Learning Vector Quantization(LVQ)originally proposed by Kohonen(1989)is aneurally-inspired classifier which pays attention to approximating the optimal Bayes decisionboundaries associated with a classification task.Wi...Learning Vector Quantization(LVQ)originally proposed by Kohonen(1989)is aneurally-inspired classifier which pays attention to approximating the optimal Bayes decisionboundaries associated with a classification task.With respect to several defects of LVQ2 algorithmstudied in this paper,some‘soft’competition schemes such as‘majority voting’scheme andcredibility calculation are proposed for improving the ability of classification as well as the learningspeed.Meanwhile,the probabilities of winning are introduced into the corrections for referencevectors in the‘soft’competition.In contrast with the conventional sequential learning technique,a novel parallel learning technique is developed to perform LVQ2 procedure.Experimental resultsof speech recognition show that these new approaches can lead to better performance as comparedwith the conventional展开更多
文摘Learning Vector Quantization(LVQ)originally proposed by Kohonen(1989)is aneurally-inspired classifier which pays attention to approximating the optimal Bayes decisionboundaries associated with a classification task.With respect to several defects of LVQ2 algorithmstudied in this paper,some‘soft’competition schemes such as‘majority voting’scheme andcredibility calculation are proposed for improving the ability of classification as well as the learningspeed.Meanwhile,the probabilities of winning are introduced into the corrections for referencevectors in the‘soft’competition.In contrast with the conventional sequential learning technique,a novel parallel learning technique is developed to perform LVQ2 procedure.Experimental resultsof speech recognition show that these new approaches can lead to better performance as comparedwith the conventional