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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

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

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

We propose Convolutional Block Attention Module (CBAM), a simple yet effective attention module for feed-forward convolutional neural networks. Given an intermediate feature map, our module sequentially infers attention maps along two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-19 Sanghyun Woo , Jongchan Park , Joon-Young Lee , In So Kweon

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

Geometric frustration gives rise to emergent quantum phenomena and exotic phases of matter. While Monte Carlo methods are traditionally used to simulate such systems, their sampling efficiency is limited by the complexity of interactions…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-27 Pratik Brahma , Junghoon Han , Tamzid Razzaque , Saavan Patel , Sayeef Salahuddin

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

Inspired by the success of Boltzmann Machines based on classical Boltzmann distribution, we propose a new machine learning approach based on quantum Boltzmann distribution of a transverse-field Ising Hamiltonian. Due to the non-commutative…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-30 Mohammad H. Amin , Evgeny Andriyash , Jason Rolfe , Bohdan Kulchytskyy , Roger Melko

Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBMs) are general unsupervised learning devices to ascertain generative models of data distributions. RBMs are often trained using the Contrastive Divergence learning algorithm (CD), an approximation to the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-07-27 E. Romero , F. Mazzanti , J. Delgado

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

A new approach to maximum likelihood learning of discrete graphical models and RBM in particular is introduced. Our method, Perturb and Descend (PD) is inspired by two ideas (I) perturb and MAP method for sampling (II) learning by…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-05-08 Siamak Ravanbakhsh , Russell Greiner , Brendan Frey

Experiments probing natural language processing by both humans and LLMs suggest that the meaning of a semantic expression is indeterminate prior to the act of interpretation rather than being specifiable simply as the sum of its parts (i.e.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Gowrav Vishwakarma , Christopher J. Agostino

Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBMs) are general unsupervised learning devices to ascertain generative models of data distributions. RBMs are often trained using the Contrastive Divergence learning algorithm (CD), an approximation to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-04-10 David Buchaca , Enrique Romero , Ferran Mazzanti , Jordi Delgado

Automatic modulation classification (AMC) is an essential technique for noncooperative spectrum monitoring and intelligent wireless receivers. However, practical AMC models must identify modulation formats from short and noisy I/Q…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-26 Ruixiang Zhang , Zinan Zhou , Yezhuo Zhang , Guangyu Li , Xuanpeng Li

The Extreme Learning Machine (ELM) is a single-hidden layer feedforward neural network (SLFN) learning algorithm that can learn effectively and quickly. The ELM training phase assigns the input weights and bias randomly and does not change…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-08-18 Andre Pacheco , Renato Krohling , Carlos da Silva

Magnetic Random-Access Memory (MRAM) based p-bit neuromorphic computing devices are garnering increasing interest as a means to compactly and efficiently realize machine learning operations in Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBMs). When…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Paul Wood , Hossein Pourmeidani , Ronald F. DeMara

We investigate the efficiency of the recently proposed Restricted Boltzmann Machine (RBM) representation of quantum many-body states to study both the static properties and quantum spin dynamics in the two-dimensional Heisenberg model on a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-07-10 G. Fabiani , J. H. Mentink

Estimation of Distribution Algorithms (EDAs) require flexible probability models that can be efficiently learned and sampled. Deep Boltzmann Machines (DBMs) are generative neural networks with these desired properties. We integrate a DBM…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-08-09 Malte Probst , Franz Rothlauf

Multimodal learning with deep Boltzmann machines (DBMs) is an generative approach to fuse multimodal inputs, and can learn the shared representation via Contrastive Divergence (CD) for classification and information retrieval tasks.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-03-30 Gang Chen , Sargur N. Srihari

Machine learning representations of many-body quantum states have recently been introduced as an ansatz to describe the ground states and unitary evolutions of many-body quantum systems. We explore one of the most important representations,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-10 Zhih-Ahn Jia , Yuan-Hang Zhang , Yu-Chun Wu , Liang Kong , Guang-Can Guo , Guo-Ping Guo