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Generative neural networks can produce data samples according to the statistical properties of their training distribution. This feature can be used to test modern computational neuroscience hypotheses suggesting that spontaneous brain…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Lorenzo Tausani , Alberto Testolin , Marco Zorzi

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-28 Simeng Liu , Yanfeng Sun , Yongli Hu , Junbin Gao , Baocai Yin

The Restricted Boltzmann Machine (RBM) is one of the simplest generative neural networks capable of learning input distributions. Despite its simplicity, the analysis of its performance in learning from the training data is only well…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Yizhou Xu , Florent Krzakala , Lenka Zdeborová

Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBM) are simple statistical models defined on a bipartite graph which have been successfully used in studying more complicated many-body systems, both classical and quantum. In this work, we exploit the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-01-13 Ermal Rrapaj , Alessandro Roggero

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

We consider restricted Boltzmann machines with a binary visible layer and a Gaussian hidden layer trained by an unlabelled dataset composed of noisy realizations of a single ground pattern. We develop a statistical mechanics framework to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-06-17 Alberto Fachechi , Elena Agliari , Miriam Aquaro , Anthony Coolen , Menno Mulder

A Restricted Boltzmann Machine (RBM) is an unsupervised machine-learning bipartite graphical model that jointly learns a probability distribution over data and extracts their relevant statistical features. As such, RBM were recently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Jérôme Tubiana , Simona Cocco , Rémi Monasson

This is a tutorial and survey paper on Boltzmann Machine (BM), Restricted Boltzmann Machine (RBM), and Deep Belief Network (DBN). We start with the required background on probabilistic graphical models, Markov random field, Gibbs sampling,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Benyamin Ghojogh , Ali Ghodsi , Fakhri Karray , Mark Crowley

In this study, a novel machine learning algorithm, restricted Boltzmann machine (RBM), is introduced. The algorithm is applied for the spectral classification in astronomy. RBM is a bipartite generative graphical model with two separate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-10-15 Fuqiang Chen , Yan Wu , Yude Bu , Guodong Zhao

The success of any machine learning system depends critically on effective representations of data. In many cases, it is desirable that a representation scheme uncovers the parts-based, additive nature of the data. Of current representation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-21 Tu Dinh Nguyen , Truyen Tran , Dinh Phung , Svetha Venkatesh

Understanding the results of deep neural networks is an essential step towards wider acceptance of deep learning algorithms. Many approaches address the issue of interpreting artificial neural networks, but often provide divergent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Vadim Borisov , Johannes Meier , Johan van den Heuvel , Hamed Jalali , Gjergji Kasneci

We consider restricted Boltzmann machine (RBMs) trained over an unstructured dataset made of blurred copies of definite but unavailable ``archetypes'' and we show that there exists a critical sample size beyond which the RBM can learn…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-09-02 Elena Agliari , Francesco Alemanno , Adriano Barra , Giordano De Marzo

Many real-world tasks, from associative memory to symbolic reasoning, benefit from discrete, structured representations that standard continuous latent models can struggle to express. We introduce the Gaussian-Multinoulli Restricted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Nikhil Kapasi , Mohamed Elfouly , William Whitehead , Luke Theogarajan

Hopfield networks (HNs) and Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBMs) are two important models at the interface of statistical physics, machine learning, and neuroscience. Recently, there has been interest in the relationship between HNs and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Matthew Smart , Anton Zilman

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

Conditional generative models are capable of using contextual information as input to create new imaginative outputs. Conditional Restricted Boltzmann Machines (CRBMs) are one class of conditional generative models that have proven to be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Alex H. Lang , Anton D. Loukianov , Charles K. Fisher

Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBM) are bi-layer neural networks used for the unsupervised learning of model distributions from data. The bipartite architecture of RBM naturally defines an elegant sampling procedure, called Alternating…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-10-27 Clément Roussel , Simona Cocco , Rémi Monasson

We present a mathematical construction for the restricted Boltzmann machine (RBM) that doesn't require specifying the number of hidden units. In fact, the hidden layer size is adaptive and can grow during training. This is obtained by first…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-21 Marc-Alexandre Côté , Hugo Larochelle

We investigate the phase diagram and memory retrieval capabilities of bipartite energy-based neural networks, namely Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBMs), as a function of the prior distribution imposed on their hidden units - including…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-12-03 Tony Bonnaire , Giovanni Catania , Aurélien Decelle , Beatriz Seoane

We introduce Thurstonian Boltzmann Machines (TBM), a unified architecture that can naturally incorporate a wide range of data inputs at the same time. Our motivation rests in the Thurstonian view that many discrete data types can be…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-08-04 Truyen Tran , Dinh Phung , Svetha Venkatesh