Re: [IMP-dev] self-organizing maps

[Ben Webb <>]

On 06/18/2012 05:31 AM, Yannick Spill wrote:
> In the light of my recent discovery of the statistics module in imp, I
> was wondering if some of you would be interested in an implementation of
> self-organizing maps (SOM). They are a generalization of principal
> components analysis to nonlinear models.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-organizing_map
> There's a shortcut for us to have it in IMP. It's called GPLVM, and is a
> probabilistic SOM based on gaussian processes. Is that something that
> would interest anyone?

If you're talking about GP-LVM from 
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~neill/gplvmcpp/ then we can't include that in 
IMP, unfortunately, because it is not open source software.

	Ben
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