What is the time and space complexity of fuzzy c-means? Of SOM? How do these complexities compare to those of K-means?

What will be an ideal response?

The time complexity of K-means O(I ? K ? m ? n), where I is the number
of iterations required for convergence, K is the number of clusters, m is the
number of points, and n is the number of attributes. The time required by
fuzzy c-means is basically the same as K-means, although the constant is

much higher. The time complexity of SOM is also basically the same as K-
means because it consists of multiple passes in which objects are assigned to
centroids and the centroids are updated. However, because the surrounding
centroids are also updated and the number of passes can be large, SOM will
typically be slower than K-means.

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