We introduce a new method for training deep Boltzmann machines jointly. Prior methods require an initial learning pass that trains the deep Boltzmann machine greedily, one layer at a time, or do not perform well on classifi- cation tasks.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1212.2686,
title = {Joint Training of Deep Boltzmann Machines},
author = {Ian Goodfellow and Aaron Courville and Yoshua Bengio},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1212.2686},
year = {2012}
}