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Machine learning is becoming widely used in analyzing the thermodynamics of many-body condensed matter systems. Restricted Boltzmann Machine (RBM) aided Monte Carlo simulations have sparked interest recently, as they manage to speed up…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-01-22 Daniel Alcalde Puente , Ilya M. Eremin

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

Sequence modeling with neural networks has lead to powerful models of symbolic music data. We address the problem of exploiting these models to reach creative musical goals, by combining with human input. To this end we generalise previous…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Christian Walder , Dongwoo Kim

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

We present and release MIDI-GPT, a generative system based on the Transformer architecture that is designed for computer-assisted music composition workflows. MIDI-GPT supports the infilling of musical material at the track and bar level,…

Controllable music generation remains a significant challenge, with existing methods often requiring model retraining or introducing audible artifacts. We introduce MusicRFM, a framework that adapts Recursive Feature Machines (RFMs) to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Daniel Zhao , Daniel Beaglehole , Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick , Julian McAuley , Zachary Novack

Analysing music in the field of machine learning is a very difficult problem with numerous constraints to consider. The nature of audio data, with its very high dimensionality and widely varying scales of structure, is one of the primary…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Tracy Qian , Jackson Kaunismaa , Tony Chung

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

This study investigates the efficacy of Conditional Restricted Boltzmann Machines (CRBMs) for modeling high-dimensional financial time series and detecting systemic risk regimes. We extend the classical application of static Restricted…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2026-01-01 Siddhartha Srinivas Rentala

Scene recognition is an important research topic in computer vision, while feature extraction is a key step of object recognition. Although classical Restricted Boltzmann machines (RBM) can efficiently represent complicated data, it is hard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-25 Jingyu Gao , Jinfu Yang , Guanghui Wang , Mingai Li

Recent approaches in music generation rely on disentangled representations, often labeled as structure and timbre or local and global, to enable controllable synthesis. Yet the underlying properties of these embeddings remain underexplored.…

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

A restricted Boltzmann machine (RBM) is an undirected graphical model constructed for discrete or continuous random variables, with two layers, one hidden and one visible, and no conditional dependency within a layer. In recent years, RBMs…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-09-12 Andee Kaplan , Daniel Nordman , Stephen Vardeman

Restricted Boltzmann machines (RBMs) have demonstrated considerable success as variational quantum states; however, their representational power remains incompletely understood. In this work, we present an analytical proof that RBMs can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-29 Yuan-Hang Zhang , Zhian Jia , Yu-Chun Wu , Guang-Can Guo

Sampling equilibrium molecular configurations from the Boltzmann distribution is a longstanding challenge. Boltzmann Generators (BGs) address this by combining exact-likelihood generative models with importance sampling, but practical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Weilong Chen , Bojun Zhao , Jan Eckwert , Julija Zavadlav

The ability to automatically generate music that appropriately matches an arbitrary input track is a challenging task. We present a novel controllable system for generating single stems to accompany musical mixes of arbitrary length. At the…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Marco Pasini , Maarten Grachten , Stefan Lattner

Music is usually highly structured and it is still an open question how to design models which can successfully learn to recognize and represent musical structure. A fundamental problem is that structurally related patterns can have very…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-08-18 Stefan Lattner , Maarten Grachten , Gerhard Widmer

The Restricted Boltzmann Machine (RBM) is a stochastic neural network capable of solving a variety of difficult tasks such as NP-Hard combinatorial optimization problems and integer factorization. The RBM architecture is also very compact;…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Saavan Patel , Philip Canoza , Sayeef Salahuddin

Recent advances in deep learning have expanded possibilities to generate music, but generating a customizable full piece of music with consistent long-term structure remains a challenge. This paper introduces MusicFrameworks, a hierarchical…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Shuqi Dai , Zeyu Jin , Celso Gomes , Roger B. Dannenberg

This paper describes a novel energy-based probabilistic distribution that represents complex-valued data and explains how to apply it to direct feature extraction from complex-valued spectra. The proposed model, the complex-valued…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-03-28 Toru Nakashika , Shinji Takaki , Junichi Yamagishi