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Matrix Variate RBM Model with Gaussian Distributions

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2016-09-28 v2

Abstract

Restricted Boltzmann Machine (RBM) is a particular type of random neural network models modeling vector data based on the assumption of Bernoulli distribution. For multi-dimensional and non-binary data, it is necessary to vectorize and discretize the information in order to apply the conventional RBM. It is well-known that vectorization would destroy internal structure of data, and the binary units will limit the applying performance due to fickle real data. To address the issue, this paper proposes a Matrix variate Gaussian Restricted Boltzmann Machine (MVGRBM) model for matrix data whose entries follow Gaussian distributions. Compared with some other RBM algorithm, MVGRBM can model real value data better and it has good performance in image classification.

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@article{arxiv.1609.06417,
  title  = {Matrix Variate RBM Model with Gaussian Distributions},
  author = {Simeng Liu and Yanfeng Sun and Yongli Hu and Junbin Gao and Baocai Yin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.06417},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

We think we need more mathematical derivation and experiments to support the proposed theory of the paper. In this period, it is not appropriate to publish it

R2 v1 2026-06-22T15:56:10.433Z