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- From: pkoikkal@abo.fi (Pasi Koikkalainen INF)
- Subject: Re: hierarchies
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.084406.28096@abo.fi>
- Organization: Abo Akademi University
- References: <1992Nov17.150028.9905@coe.montana.edu>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 08:44:06 GMT
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- wombat@cs.montana.edu (Izurieta) writes:
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- > I have been reading a few papers in segmentation of environments
- >into regions. Apparently, this is done by humans to create cognitive
- >maps of some areas. These regions in turn, form part of a hierarchy.
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- > Here is my question, What are the advantages of using a hierarchy
- >to subdivide an environment? Are there any computational advantages?
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- I am most interested about this topic, but from other perspective.
- In 1989 I developed such an algorithm to train Self-Organizing
- Feature Maps in logaritmic time (O(N) is reduced to O(log N), where
- N is the number of units (neurons)). At that time the only advantage
- was speed, but I believe that there should be other (representitional)
- advantages as well. So I would appreciate if you can point out
- the references you were talking about (I have already Hinton's
- article in Scientific American).
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- The only (currently available) reference to my work was in Neural Net
- conference 1990 (San Diego), available also via ftp from:
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- lut.fi (157.24.10.8)
- account: ftp
- password: --see instructions
- directory: reports/neural-nets
- file: selfhier.ps.Z
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- Since then we have used this net a lot in our research, and
- future papers will show very similar results that mentioned
- in Hintons article. (Our work is mainly in computer vision and
- artificial intelligence, using neural networks).
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- > Clem
- > (wombat@cs.montana.edu)
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- Pasi Koikkalainen (permanent address)
- ]bo Akademi ( - 22.Sept.93) Lappeenranta Univ. of Tech.
- Inst. Informationsbehandling P.O.BOX 20, 53851-LPR
- 20520 Turku, Finland Finland
- email: pkoikkal@ra.abo.fi email: pako@lut.fi
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