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Machine learning algorithms often take inspiration from established results and knowledge from statistical physics. A prototypical example is the Boltzmann machine algorithm for supervised learning, which utilizes knowledge of classical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-12-04 Tatjana Puskarov , Axel Cortes Cubero

We present a feature learning model that learns to encode relationships between images. The model is defined as a Gated Boltzmann Machine, which is constrained such that hidden units that are nearby in space can gate each other's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-03-12 Felix Bauer , Roland Memisevic

The Gaussian mixture model is widely used in unsupervised learning, owing to its simplicity and interpretability. However, a fundamental limitation of the classical Gaussian mixture model is that it forces each observation to belong to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-27 Huan Qing

Gaussian mixture models (GMMs) are widely used in machine learning for tasks such as clustering, classification, image reconstruction, and generative modeling. A key challenge in working with GMMs is defining a computationally efficient and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Moritz Piening , Robert Beinert

Since learning is typically very slow in Boltzmann machines, there is a need to restrict connections within hidden layers. However, the resulting states of hidden units exhibit statistical dependencies. Based on this observation, we propose…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2010-08-31 Heng Luo , Ruimin Shen , Cahngyong Niu

Recent advances in artificial intelligence have relied heavily on increasingly large neural networks, raising concerns about their computational and environmental costs. This paper investigates whether simpler, sparser networks can maintain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 C. Díaz-Faloh , R. Mulet

One of the fundamental tasks of science is to find explainable relationships between observed phenomena. One approach to this task that has received attention in recent years is based on probabilistic graphical modelling with sparsity…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-04-16 Peter Orchard , Felix Agakov , Amos Storkey

In this work, we introduce a new procedure for applying Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBMs) to missing data inference tasks, based on linearization of the effective energy function governing the distribution of observations. We compare the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Chris Cannella , Jie Ding , Mohammadreza Soltani , Vahid Tarokh

Restricted Boltzmann machines (RBMs) are energy-based models analogous to the Ising model and are widely applied in statistical machine learning. The standard inverse Ising problem with a complete dataset requires computing both data and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-01 Kaiji Sekimoto , Muneki Yasuda

Learning invariant representations is a critical task in computer vision. In this paper, we propose the Theta-Restricted Boltzmann Machine ({\theta}-RBM in short), which builds upon the original RBM formulation and injects the notion of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-30 Mario Valerio Giuffrida , Sotirios A. Tsaftaris

We propose Deep Residual Mixture Models (DRMMs), a novel deep generative model architecture. Compared to other deep models, DRMMs allow more flexible conditional sampling: The model can be trained once with all variables, and then used for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Perttu Hämäläinen , Martin Trapp , Tuure Saloheimo , Arno Solin

The possibility of employing restricted Boltzmann machine (RBM) for collaborative filtering has been known for about a decade. However, there has been hardly any work on this topic since 2007. This work revisits the application of RBM in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-18 Sagar Verma , Prince Patel , Angshul Majumdar

The Gaussian Process Convolution Model (GPCM; Tobar et al., 2015a) is a model for signals with complex spectral structure. A significant limitation of the GPCM is that it assumes a rapidly decaying spectrum: it can only model smooth…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-04-15 Wessel P. Bruinsma , Martin Tegnér , Richard E. Turner

We investigate the performance of machine learning algorithms trained exclusively with configurations obtained from importance sampling Monte Carlo simulations of the two-dimensional Ising model with conserved magnetization. For supervised…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-19 Ahmadreza Azizi , Michel Pleimling

Restricted Boltzmann machines (RBMs) are energy-based neural-networks which are commonly used as the building blocks for deep architectures neural architectures. In this work, we derive a deterministic framework for the training,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Eric W. Tramel , Marylou Gabrié , Andre Manoel , Francesco Caltagirone , Florent Krzakala

The deep Boltzmann machine (DBM) has been an important development in the quest for powerful "deep" probabilistic models. To date, simultaneous or joint training of all layers of the DBM has been largely unsuccessful with existing training…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2012-03-21 Guillaume Desjardins , Aaron Courville , Yoshua Bengio

We present the application of Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBMs) to the task of astronomical image classification using a quantum annealer built by D-Wave Systems. Morphological analysis of galaxies provides critical information for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-17 João Caldeira , Joshua Job , Steven H. Adachi , Brian Nord , Gabriel N. Perdue

Stochastic gradient descent based algorithms are typically used as the general optimization tools for most deep learning models. A Restricted Boltzmann Machine (RBM) is a probabilistic generative model that can be stacked to construct deep…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-04-07 Kai Fan

Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBMs) are generative models which can learn useful representations from samples of a dataset in an unsupervised fashion. They have been widely employed as an unsupervised pre-training method in machine…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-09-13 Chris Häusler , Alex Susemihl , Martin P Nawrot , Manfred Opper

Recent advances in deep learning and neural networks have led to an increased interest in the application of generative models in statistical and condensed matter physics. In particular, restricted Boltzmann machines (RBMs) and variational…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-06-09 Francesco D'Angelo , Lucas Böttcher