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The restricted Boltzmann machine (RBM) is a neural network based on the Ising model, well known for its ability to learn probability distributions and stochastically generate new content. However, the high computational cost of Gibbs…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-13 Li Luo , Yisheng Fang , Wanyi Zhang , Zhichao Ruan

The restricted Boltzmann machine (RBM) has been successfully applied to solve the many-electron Schr$\ddot{\text{o}}$dinger equation. In this work we propose a single-layer fully connected neural network adapted from RBM and apply it to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-11 Yangjun Wu , Xiansong Xu , Dario Poletti , Yi Fan , Chu Guo , Honghui Shang

Restricted Boltzmann Machine (RBM) is an energy based, undirected graphical model. It is commonly used for unsupervised and supervised machine learning. Typically, RBM is trained using contrastive divergence (CD). However, training with CD…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Vivek Dixit , Raja Selvarajan , Muhammad A. Alam , Travis S. Humble , Sabre Kais

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

This paper presents a novel approach to speaker subspace modelling based on Gaussian-Binary Restricted Boltzmann Machines (GRBM). The proposed model is based on the idea of shared factors as in the Probabilistic Linear Discriminant Analysis…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Danila Doroshin , Alexander Yamshinin , Nikolay Lubimov , Marina Nastasenko , Mikhail Kotov , Maxim Tkachenko

Machine learning methods are powerful in distinguishing different phases of matter in an automated way and provide a new perspective on the study of physical phenomena. We train a Restricted Boltzmann Machine (RBM) on data constructed with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-09-23 Shotaro Shiba Funai , Dimitrios Giataganas

Most accurate recommender systems are black-box models, hiding the reasoning behind their recommendations. Yet explanations have been shown to increase the user's trust in the system in addition to providing other benefits such as…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-06-24 Behnoush Abdollahi , Olfa Nasraoui

The Gaussian Process Convolution Model (GPCM; Tobar et al., 2015a) is a model for signals with complex spectral structure. A significant limitation of the GPCM is that it assumes a rapidly decaying spectrum: it can only model smooth…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-04-15 Wessel P. Bruinsma , Martin Tegnér , Richard E. Turner

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

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 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

Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBMs) are powerful tools for modeling complex systems and extracting insights from data, but their training is hindered by the slow mixing of Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) processes, especially with highly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Nicolas Béreux , Aurélien Decelle , Cyril Furtlehner , Lorenzo Rosset , Beatriz Seoane

In this paper, we investigate the feature encoding process in a prototypical energy-based generative model, the Restricted Boltzmann Machine (RBM). We start with an analytical investigation using simplified architectures and data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Dimitrios Bachtis , Giulio Biroli , Aurélien Decelle , Beatriz Seoane

Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBMs) are probabilistic generative models that can be trained by maximum likelihood in principle, but are usually trained by an approximate algorithm called Contrastive Divergence (CD) in practice. In general,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Charles K. Fisher

We consider the problem of discriminatively learning restricted Boltzmann machines in the presence of relational data. Unlike previous approaches that employ a rule learner (for structure learning) and a weight learner (for parameter…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Navdeep Kaur , Gautam Kunapuli , Sriraam Natarajan

Restricted Boltzman Machines (RBMs) have been successfully used in recommender systems. However, as with most of other collaborative filtering techniques, it cannot solve cold start problems for there is no rating for a new item. In this…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-08-04 Jiankou Li , Wei Zhang

Investigating the dynamics of learning in machine learning algorithms is of paramount importance for understanding how and why an approach may be successful. The tools of physics and statistics provide a robust setting for such…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-12-31 Chanju Park , Matteo Favoni , Biagio Lucini , Gert Aarts

Approximate Message Passing (AMP) has been shown to be an excellent statistical approach to signal inference and compressed sensing problem. The AMP framework provides modularity in the choice of signal prior; here we propose a hierarchical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-11 Eric W. Tramel , Angélique Drémeau , Florent Krzakala

We show that Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBMs) provide a flexible generative framework for modeling spin configurations in disordered yet strongly correlated phases of frustrated magnets. As a benchmark, we first demonstrate that an RBM…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-19 Ho Jang , Jackson C. Glass , Gia-Wei Chern

We investigate how Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBMs) encode antiferromagnetic order when trained as variational ans\"atze for one-dimensional Heisenberg spin rings with periodic boundary conditions. Through systematic hidden unit…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-26 Bharadwaj Chowdary Mummaneni , Manas Sajjan