Active consensus-based semi-supervised growing neural gas

• Autor(a) principal: M�ximo, Vin�cius R.
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Outros Autores: Nascimento, Mari� C. V., Breve, Fabricio A. [UNESP], Quiles, Marcos G.
• Tipo de documento: Artigo de conferência
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46672-9_15; http://hdl.handle.net/11449/169070

In this paper, we propose a new active semi-supervised growing neural gas (GNG) model, named Active Consensus-Based Semi-Supervised GNG, or ACSSGNG. This model extends the former CSSGNG model by introducing an active mechanism for querying more representative samples in comparison to a random, or passive, selection. Moreover, as a semi-supervised model, the ACSSGNG takes both labelled and unlabelled samples in the training procedure. In comparison to other adaptations of the GNG to semi-supervised classification, the ACSSGNG does not assign a single scalar label value to each neuron. Instead, a vector containing the representativeness level of each class is associated with each neuron. Here, this information is used to select which sample the specialist might label instead of using a random selection of samples. Computer experiments show that our model can deliver, on average, better classification results than state-of-art semi-supervised algorithms, including the CSSGNG.