A general framework for unsupervised processing of structured data

We propose a general framework for unsupervised recurrent and recursive networks. This proposal covers various popular approaches like standard self organizing maps (SOM), temporal Kohonen maps, recursive SOM, and SOM for structured data. We define Hebbian learning within this general framework. We show how approaches based on an energy function, like neural gas, can be transferred to this abstract framework so that proposals for new learning algorithms emerge