The Effect of Noise Injection into Inputs in the Kohonen Learning

Kohonen 학습의 입력에 잡음 주입의 효과

This paper proposes the strategy of noise injection into inputs in the Kohonen learning algorithm (KKA) to improve the local convergence problem of the KLA. Noise strengths are high in the begin of the learning and gradually lowered as the teaming proceeds. This strategy is a kind of stochastic relaxation (SR) method which is broadly used in the general optimization problems. It is convenient to implement and improves the convergence properties of the KLA with moderately increased computing time compared to the KLA. Experimental results for Gauss-Markov sources and real speech demonstrate that the proposed method can consistently provide better codebooks than the KLA.