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Deep Boltzmann machines (DBMs), one of the first ``deep'' learning methods ever studied, are multi-layered probabilistic models governed by a pairwise energy function that describes the likelihood of all variables/nodes in the network. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Zhili Feng , Ezra Winston , J. Zico Kolter

Energy-based models are popular in machine learning due to the elegance of their formulation and their relationship to statistical physics. Among these, the Restricted Boltzmann Machine (RBM), and its staple training algorithm contrastive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-04-09 Daniel Jiwoong Im , Ethan Buchman , Graham W. Taylor

Energy-based generative models, such as restricted Boltzmann machines (RBMs), require unbiased Boltzmann samples for effective training. Classical Markov chain Monte Carlo methods, however, converge slowly and yield correlated samples,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-16 Gilhan Kim , Ju-Yeon Gyhm , Daniel K. Park

The quantum circuit Born machine (QCBM) is a quantum physics inspired implicit generative model naturally suitable for learning binary images, with a potential advantage of modeling discrete distributions that are hard to simulate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-21 Pengyuan Zhai

The Gaussian-Bernoulli restricted Boltzmann machine (GB-RBM) is a useful generative model that captures meaningful features from the given $n$-dimensional continuous data. The difficulties associated with learning GB-RBM are reported…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Vidyadhar Upadhya , P S Sastry

Quantum computers can efficiently sample from probability distributions that are believed to be classically intractable, providing a foundation for quantum generative modeling. However, practical training of such models remains challenging,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Maria Demidik , Cenk Tüysüz , Michele Grossi , Karl Jansen

Training generative models to sample from unnormalized density functions is an important and challenging task in machine learning. Traditional training methods often rely on the reverse Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence due to its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Jiajun He , Wenlin Chen , Mingtian Zhang , David Barber , José Miguel Hernández-Lobato

Restricted Boltzmann Machine (RBM) is a generative stochastic energy-based model of artificial neural network for unsupervised learning. Recently, RBM is well known to be a pre-training method of Deep Learning. In addition to visible and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-12 Shin Kamada , Takumi Ichimura

Quantum Boltzmann machines (QBMs) are generative models with potential advantages in quantum machine learning, yet their training is fundamentally limited by the barren plateau problem, where gradients vanish exponentially with system size.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-06 Takeshi Kimura , Kohtaro Kato , Masahito Hayashi

Graphical models are a rich language for describing high-dimensional distributions in terms of their dependence structure. While there are algorithms with provable guarantees for learning undirected graphical models in a variety of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Guy Bresler , Frederic Koehler , Ankur Moitra , Elchanan Mossel

This work analyzes centered binary Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBMs) and binary Deep Boltzmann Machines (DBMs), where centering is done by subtracting offset values from visible and hidden variables. We show analytically that (i)…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-02-08 Jan Melchior , Asja Fischer , Laurenz Wiskott

This paper investigates photonic continuous-variable Born machines (CVBMs), which utilize photonic quantum states as resources for continuous probability distributions. Implementing exact gradient descent in the CVBM training process is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-16 Zoltán Kolarovszki , Dániel T. R. Nagy , Zoltán Zimborás

Quantum neural networks (QNNs) are a framework for creating quantum algorithms that promises to combine the speedups of quantum computation with the widespread successes of machine learning. A major challenge in QNN development is a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-18 Maria Kieferova , Ortiz Marrero Carlos , Nathan Wiebe

We propose ratio divergence (RD) learning for discrete energy-based models, a method that utilizes both training data and a tractable target energy function. We apply RD learning to restricted Boltzmann machines (RBMs), which are a minimal…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-09 Yuichi Ishida , Yuma Ichikawa , Aki Dote , Toshiyuki Miyazawa , Koji Hukushima

We present transductive Boltzmann machines (TBMs), which firstly achieve transductive learning of the Gibbs distribution. While exact learning of the Gibbs distribution is impossible by the family of existing Boltzmann machines due to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-22 Mahito Sugiyama , Koji Tsuda , Hiroyuki Nakahara

We developed an adaptive structure learning method of Restricted Boltzmann Machine (RBM) which can generate/annihilate neurons by self-organizing learning method according to input patterns. Moreover, the adaptive Deep Belief Network (DBN)…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-12 Shin Kamada , Takumi Ichimura

We propose a novel quantum model for the restricted Boltzmann machine (RBM), in which the visible units remain classical whereas the hidden units are quantized as noninteracting fermions. The free motion of the fermions is parametrically…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-02-15 Ya. S. Lyakhova , E. A. Polyakov , A. N. Rubtsov

Bayesian learning is ubiquitous for implementing classification and regression tasks, however, it is accompanied by computationally intractable limitations when the feature spaces become extremely large. Aiming to solve this problem, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-24 Yusen Wu , Chao-hua Yu , Sujuan Qin , Qiaoyan Wen , Fei Gao

Deep energy-based models (EBMs) are very flexible in distribution parametrization but computationally challenging because of the intractable partition function. They are typically trained via maximum likelihood, using contrastive divergence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Lantao Yu , Yang Song , Jiaming Song , Stefano Ermon

Generative machine learning models like the Restricted Boltzmann Machine (RBM) provide a practical approach for ansatz construction within the quantum computing framework. This work introduces a method that efficiently leverages RBM and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-03-12 Sonaldeep Halder , Kartikey Anand , Rahul Maitra