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Machine learning algorithms often take inspiration from established results and knowledge from statistical physics. A prototypical example is the Boltzmann machine algorithm for supervised learning, which utilizes knowledge of classical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-12-04 Tatjana Puskarov , Axel Cortes Cubero

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 introduce theoretically grounded Continuous Semi-Quantum Boltzmann Machines (CSQBMs) that supports continuous-action reinforcement learning. By combining exponential-family priors over visible units with quantum Boltzmann distributions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Thore Gerlach , Michael Schenk , Verena Kain

The topic of generative learning has gained traction within the field of quantum machine learning, in particular with the advent of train-on-classical, deploy-on-quantum methods. This approach exploits the properties of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Felix Gottlieb , Rawad Mezher , Brian Ventura , Shane Mansfield , Alexia Salavrakos

We introduce evolved quantum Boltzmann machines as a variational ansatz for quantum optimization and learning tasks. Given two parameterized Hamiltonians $G(\theta)$ and $H(\phi)$, an evolved quantum Boltzmann machine consists of preparing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 Michele Minervini , Dhrumil Patel , Mark M. Wilde

Boltzmann machines are the basis of several deep learning methods that have been successfully applied to both supervised and unsupervised machine learning tasks. These models assume that a dataset is generated according to a Boltzmann…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-25 Richard Y. Li , Tameem Albash , Daniel A. Lidar

The goal of generative machine learning is to model the probability distribution underlying a given data set. This probability distribution helps to characterize the generation process of the data samples. While classical generative machine…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-29 Christa Zoufal

In Deep Learning, a well-known approach for training a Deep Neural Network starts by training a generative Deep Belief Network model, typically using Contrastive Divergence (CD), then fine-tuning the weights using backpropagation or other…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-22 Steven H. Adachi , Maxwell P. Henderson

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

Boltzmann machine is a powerful tool for modeling probability distributions that govern the training data. A thermal equilibrium state is typically used for Boltzmann machine learning to obtain a suitable probability distribution. The…

The infinite restricted Boltzmann machine (iRBM) is an extension of the classic RBM. It enjoys a good property of automatically deciding the size of the hidden layer according to specific training data. With sufficient training, the iRBM…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Xuan Peng , Xunzhang Gao , Xiang Li

In a series of recent works, an interesting quantum generative model based on parameterized instantaneous polynomial quantum (IQP) circuits has emerged as they can be trained efficiently classically using any loss function that depends only…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-09 Andrii Kurkin , Kevin Shen , Susanne Pielawa , Hao Wang , Vedran Dunjko

Restricted Boltzmann machines (RBMs) and their variants are usually trained by contrastive divergence (CD) learning, but the training procedure is an unsupervised learning approach, without any guidances of the background knowledge. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Jielei Chu , Hongjun Wang , Hua Meng , Peng Jin , Tianrui Li

Quantum Machine Learning is where nowadays machine learning meets quantum information science. In order to implement this new paradigm for novel quantum technologies, we still need a much deeper understanding of its underlying mechanisms,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 Paolo Braccia , Filippo Caruso , Leonardo Banchi

Quantum circuit Born machines are generative models which represent the probability distribution of classical dataset as quantum pure states. Computational complexity considerations of the quantum sampling problem suggest that the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-21 Jin-Guo Liu , Lei Wang

Learning representations of molecular structures using deep learning is a fundamental problem in molecular property prediction tasks. Molecules inherently exist in the real world as three-dimensional structures; furthermore, they are not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Daiki Koge , Naoaki Ono , Shigehiko Kanaya

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

Quantum generative models provide inherently efficient sampling strategies and thus show promise for achieving an advantage using quantum hardware. In this work, we investigate the barriers to the trainability of quantum generative models…

Variational autoencoders (VAEs) are powerful generative models with the salient ability to perform inference. Here, we introduce a quantum variational autoencoder (QVAE): a VAE whose latent generative process is implemented as a quantum…

Near-term noisy intermediate-scale quantum circuits can efficiently implement implicit probabilistic models in discrete spaces, supporting distributions that are practically infeasible to sample from using classical means. One of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-07 Ivana Nikoloska , Osvaldo Simeone