It’s time to start seriously work on my Master Diploma.

What about is my Master Diploma work?

In Artificial Intelligence we often use neural networks in try to simulate aspects of the biological neural networks. Applicability of these is very wide, it could be smart unit in some video game, or expert subsystem when diagnosis patient. Even your inbox e-mails are filtered with algorithm, which includes neural networks usage.

One great applicability of Self-Organizing Maps (one of the artificial neural networks) is possibility to analyze high-dimensional data, save its topology and translate it to low-dimensional representation which further could be easily analyzed by human brains.

For human being it is hard to work with dozens of input information for different aspects of one thing. For example 100 patients being diagnosing and for each we need 30-40 different measurements. SOM could easily classify data and for output with knowing of some existing diagnosis we can get “Patient – Diagnosis”.

I mentioned something like “with knowing of some existing…”. This means that SOM requires training, which takes execution time. If our application domain is something for military, time could be critical constraint.

In this work I’m going to significantly improve calculations of Self-Organizing Maps with introducing multi-threading improvements.

Project hosting

I already hosted my project with google code:
http://code.google.com/p/andriybudaydiploma/


Code:
The
self-organizing map is a popular unsupervised neural network model for
high-dimensional data analysis. However, the high execution times
required to train the map put a limit to its use in many application
domains, where either very large datasets are encountered and/or
real-time response times are required.

Project is host for implementation of a parallel algorithm, purpose of
which is to significantly improve calculations of standard algorithm.
This is main goal of actual project.

This project represents Andriy Buday’s Master Diploma work.

e-mail me: andriybuday@gmail.com

What do I need to accomplish?

I need to ensure that I understand computations of SOM deeply.
Research over interned for similar works and take them into account.
I’ve decided to write my code from scratch, since I already have some implementation of SOM.
After I’ll have some implementation I need to analyze results I got on different systems.
Improve my knowledge of Java, Concurrency and train my scientific habits. :)

This blog and my Diploma

I was thinking about posting status of my work on Diploma on separate blog or site, but don’t want to have myseft scattered over different locations, so I’ve decided that just tag “Master Diploma” should be enough. I don’t think that it could make sense to hide something from the world or my co-workers or Customers (don’t even think they read my blog). And of course my Diploma is part of my Road To Success.

Please, wish me luck on this!

No doubt I will do the best to take my work to the breakthrough.

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