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The restricted Boltzmann machine (RBM) is a flexible tool for modeling complex data, however there have been significant computational difficulties in using RBMs to model high-dimensional multinomial observations. In natural language…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-06 George E. Dahl , Ryan P. Adams , Hugo Larochelle

Restricted Boltzmann machines (RBMs) are powerful machine learning models, but learning and some kinds of inference in the model require sampling-based approximations, which, in classical digital computers, are implemented using expensive…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-10-27 Vincent Dumoulin , Ian J. Goodfellow , Aaron Courville , Yoshua Bengio

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

Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBMs) are well-known tools used in Machine Learning to learn probability distribution functions from data. We analyse RBMs with scalar fields on the nodes from the perspective of lattice field theory. Starting…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-03-04 Gert Aarts , Biagio Lucini , Chanju Park

Conditional restricted Boltzmann machines are undirected stochastic neural networks with a layer of input and output units connected bipartitely to a layer of hidden units. These networks define models of conditional probability…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Guido Montufar , Nihat Ay , Keyan Ghazi-Zahedi

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

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

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

The Boltzmann Machine (BM) is a neural network composed of stochastically firing neurons that can learn complex probability distributions by adapting the synaptic interactions between the neurons. BMs represent a very generic class of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-16 Brian Kiraly , Elze J. Knol , Hilbert J. Kappen , Alexander A. Khajetoorians

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

Restricted Boltzmann machines (RBM) are generative models capable to learn data with a rich underlying structure. We study the teacher-student setting where a student RBM learns structured data generated by a teacher RBM. The amount of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Robin Thériault , Francesco Tosello , Daniele Tantari

We consider a special type of Restricted Boltzmann machine (RBM), namely a Gaussian-spherical RBM where the visible units have Gaussian priors while the vector of hidden variables is constrained to stay on an ${\mathbbm L}_2$ sphere. The…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-07-17 Aurélien Decelle , Cyril Furtlehner

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

We propose a new approach to combine Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBMs) that can be used to solve combinatorial optimization problems. This allows synthesis of larger models from smaller RBMs that have been pretrained, thus effectively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Saavan Patel , Sayeef Salahuddin

Extreme learning machine (ELM) is a new single hidden layer feedback neural network. The weights of the input layer and the biases of neurons in hidden layer are randomly generated, the weights of the output layer can be analytically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Lin Feng , Shuliang Xu , Feilong Wang , Shenglan Liu

Restricted Boltzmann Machines are simple yet powerful neural networks. They can be used for learning structure in data, and are used as a building block of more complex neural architectures. At the same time, their simplicity makes them…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-01-09 Giovanni di Sarra , Barbara Bravi , Yasser Roudi

Extreme learning machine (ELM) as a simple and rapid neural network has been shown its good performance in various areas. Different from the general single hidden layer feedforward neural network (SLFN), the input weights and biases in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Xixian Zhang , Zhijing Yang , Faxian Cao , Jiangzhong Cao , Meilin Wang , Nian Cai

Gradient Boosting Machine (GBM) introduced by Friedman is a powerful supervised learning algorithm that is very widely used in practice---it routinely features as a leading algorithm in machine learning competitions such as Kaggle and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Haihao Lu , Rahul Mazumder

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

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