Unsupervised connectionist clustering algorithms for a better supervised prediction: application to a radio communication problem

Colloque avec actes et comité de lecture.; Most models concerned with real-world applications can be improved in structuring data and incorporating knowledge about the domain. In our problem of radio electrical wave dying down prediction for mobile communication, a geographic database can be divided in contextual subsets, each representing an homogeneous domain where a predictive model performs better. More precisely, by clustering the input space, a predictive model (here a multilayer perceptron) can be trained on each subspace. Various unsupervised algorithms for clustering were evaluated (Kohonen's maps. Desieno's algorithm, Neural gas, Growing Neural Gas, Buhmann's algorithm) to obtain class homogeneous enough to decrease the predictive error of the radio electrical wave prediction