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Feature selection (FS) has long been studied in classification and regression problems. In comparison, FS for unsupervised learning has received far less attention. For many real problems concerning unsupervised data clustering, FS becomes an issue of paramount importance. An unsupervised FS method for Gaussian Mixture Models, based on Feature Relevance Determination (FRD), was recently defined. Unfortunately, the data visualization capabilities of general mixture models are limited. Generative Topographic Mapping (GTM), a constrained mixture model, was originally defined to overcome such limitation. In this brief study, we test in some detail the capabilities of a recently described FRD method for GTM that allows the clustering results to be intuitively visualized and interpreted in terms of a reduced subset of selected relevant features.
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Vellido, A. (2006). Assessment of an Unsupervised Feature Selection Method for Generative Topographic Mapping. In: Kollias, S., Stafylopatis, A., Duch, W., Oja, E. (eds) Artificial Neural Networks – ICANN 2006. ICANN 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4132. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11840930_37
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