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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

We successfully model the behavior of two-spin systems using neural networks known as conditional Restricted Boltzmann Machines (cRBMs) which encode physical information in the properties of a thermal ensemble akin to an Ising model. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-31 Steven Weinstein

The restricted Boltzmann machine is a basic machine learning tool able, in principle, to model the distribution of some arbitrary dataset. Its standard training procedure appears however delicate and obscure in many respects. We bring some…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-11-18 Aurélien Decelle , Cyril Furtlehner

{Many-body quantum states at thermal equilibrium are ubiquitous in nature. Investigating their dynamical properties is a formidable task due to the complexity of the Hilbert space they live in. Quantum computers may have the potential to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-25 Mirko Consiglio , Tony J. G. Apollaro

One of the central challenges in modern machine learning is understanding how neural networks generalize knowledge learned from training data to unseen test data. While numerous empirical techniques have been proposed to improve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Entao Yang , Xiaotian Zhang , Yue Shang , Ge Zhang

We developed a deep generative model-based variational free energy approach to the equations of state of dense hydrogen. We employ a normalizing flow network to model the proton Boltzmann distribution and a fermionic neural network to model…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-09-26 Hao Xie , Zi-Hang Li , Han Wang , Linfeng Zhang , Lei Wang

In past decades, enormous effort has been expended to develop algorithms and even to construct special-purpose computers in order to efficiently evaluate total energies and forces for long-range-interacting particle systems, with the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-10-14 Gabriele Tartero , Werner Krauth

A boson sampler implements a restricted model of quantum computing. It is defined by the ability to sample from the distribution resulting from the interference of identical bosons propagating according to programmable, non-interacting…

Due to the complexity of the space of quantum many-body states the computation of expectation values by statistical sampling is, in general, a hard task. Neural network representations of such quantum states which can be physically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-04 Stefanie Czischek , Jan M. Pawlowski , Thomas Gasenzer , Martin Gärttner

This study explores the implementation of large Quantum Restricted Boltzmann Machines (QRBMs), a key advancement in Quantum Machine Learning (QML), as generative models on D-Wave's Pegasus quantum hardware to address dataset imbalance in…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Salvatore Sinno , Markus Bertl , Arati Sahoo , Bhavika Bhalgamiya , Thomas Groß , Nicholas Chancellor

Molecules in equilibrium follow a Boltzmann distribution, making the underlying energy landscape a physically grounded modeling objective. However, such landscapes are difficult to learn from data and, once learned, hard to sample from.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Christoph Griesbacher , Lea Bogensperger , Andreas Habring , Thomas Pock

Understanding how macroscopic systems exhibit irreversible thermal behavior has been a long-standing challenge, first brought to prominence by Boltzmann. Recent advances have established rigorous conditions for isolated quantum systems to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-10 M. R. Passos , Thiago R. de Oliveira

Training in machine learning generally consists in finding one model, whose parameters minimize a data-dependent loss. Yet, empirical work shows that ensemble learning, an approach in which multiple models are sampled, can improve…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-04-28 Thomas Tulinski , Jorge Fernandez-De-Cossio-Diaz , Simona Cocco , Rémi Monasson

Molecular dynamics is a powerful tool for studying the thermodynamics and kinetics of complex molecular events. However, these simulations can rarely sample the required time scales in practice. Transition path sampling overcomes this…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-07-31 Gianmarco Lazzeri , Hendrik Jung , Peter G. Bolhuis , Roberto Covino

Measurement plays a crucial role in a quantum system beyond just learning about the system state: it changes the post-measurement state and hence influences the subsequent time evolution; further, measurement can even create entanglement in…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-04-09 Huy Nguyen , Yu-Xin Wang , Jacob M. Taylor

Using normalizing flows and reweighting, Boltzmann Generators enable equilibrium sampling from a Boltzmann distribution, defined by an energy function and thermodynamic state. In this work, we introduce Thermodynamic Interpolation (TI),…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-11-18 Selma Moqvist , Weilong Chen , Mathias Schreiner , Feliks Nüske , Simon Olsson

In experimentally realistic situations, quantum systems are never perfectly isolated and the coupling to their environment needs to be taken into account. Often, the effect of the environment can be well approximated by a Markovian master…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-03 Michael J. Hartmann , Giuseppe Carleo

Finding reduced models of spatially-distributed chemical reaction networks requires an estimation of which effective dynamics are relevant. We propose a machine learning approach to this coarse graining problem, where a maximum entropy…

Biological Physics · Physics 2018-08-15 Oliver K. Ernst , Thomas Bartol , Terrence Sejnowski , Eric Mjolsness

There is a great need for improved statistical sampling in a range of physical, chemical and biological systems. Even simulations based on correct algorithms suffer from statistical error, which can be substantial or even dominant when slow…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-11-09 F. Marty Ytreberg , Daniel M. Zuckerman

Deep generative models provide a systematic way to learn nonlinear data distributions, through a set of latent variables and a nonlinear "generator" function that maps latent points into the input space. The nonlinearity of the generator…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-12-14 Georgios Arvanitidis , Lars Kai Hansen , Søren Hauberg