A new generalized LVQ algorithm via harmonic to minimum distance measure transition

We present a novel generalized learning vector quantization (LVQ) framework called the harmonic to minimum generalized LVQ algorithm (H2M-GLVQ). Through incorporating the distance measure transition procedure from harmonic average distance to minimum distance, the H2M-GLVQ cost function is gradually changing from the soft model to the hard model. Our proposed method, at the early training stage, can effectively tackle the initialization sensitivity problem associated with the original generalized LVQ algorithm while the convergence of the algorithm can be ensured by the hard model in the later training stage. Experimental results have shown the superior performance of the H2M-GLVQ algorithm over the generalized LVQ and one of its variants on some artificial multi-modal datasets