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Learning Vector Quantization (LVQ) is a popular method for multiclass classification. Several variants of LVQ have been developed recently, of which Robust Soft Learning Vector Quantization (RSLVQ) is a promising one. Although LVQ methods have an intuitive design with clear updating rules, their dynamics are not yet well understood. In simulations within a controlled environment RSLVQ performed very close to optimal. This controlled environment enabled us to perform a mathematical analysis as a first step in obtaining a better theoretical understanding of the learning dynamics. In this talk I will discuss the theoretical analysis and its results. Moreover, I will focus on the practical application of RSLVQ to a real world dataset containing extracted features from facial expression data.
@InProceedings{devries_et_al:DagSemProc.09081.4,
author = {de Vries, Gert-Jan and Biehl, Michael},
title = {{Analysis of Robust Soft Learning Vector Quantization and an application to Facial Expression Recognition}},
booktitle = {Similarity-based learning on structures},
pages = {1--5},
series = {Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings (DagSemProc)},
ISSN = {1862-4405},
year = {2009},
volume = {9081},
editor = {Michael Biehl and Barbara Hammer and Sepp Hochreiter and Stefan C. Kremer and Thomas Villmann},
publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
address = {Dagstuhl, Germany},
URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagSemProc.09081.4},
URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-20356},
doi = {10.4230/DagSemProc.09081.4},
annote = {Keywords: Learning Vector Quantization, Analysis, Facial Expression Recognition}
}