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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

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

Classification of sequence data is the topic of interest for dynamic Bayesian models and Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs). While the former can explicitly model the temporal dependencies between class variables, the latter have a capability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-12 Son N. Tran , Srikanth Cherla , Artur Garcez , Tillman Weyde

Statistical analysis of evolutionary-related protein sequences provides insights about their structure, function, and history. We show that Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBM), designed to learn complex high-dimensional data and their…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2019-02-28 Jérôme Tubiana , Simona Cocco , Rémi Monasson

Finding suitable features has been an essential problem in computer vision. We focus on Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBMs), which, despite their versatility, cannot accommodate transformations that may occur in the scene. As a result,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Mario Valerio Giuffrida , Sotirios A. Tsaftaris

A restricted Boltzmann machine (RBM) is a two-layer neural network with shared weights and has been extensively studied for dimensionality reduction, data representation and recommendation systems in the literature. The traditional RBM…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Jiangsheng You , Chun-Yen Liu

We consider the problem of classification when inputs correspond to sets of vectors. This setting occurs in many problems such as the classification of pieces of mail containing several pages, of web sites with several sections or of images…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2011-03-28 Jérôme Louradour , Hugo Larochelle

Restricted latent class models (RLCMs) have recently gained prominence in educational assessment, psychiatric evaluation, and medical diagnosis. Different from conventional latent class models, restrictions on the RLCM model parameters are…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-04-09 Yuqi Gu , Gongjun Xu

A restricted Boltzmann machine (RBM) is a generative neural-network model with many novel applications such as collaborative filtering and acoustic modeling. An RBM lacks the capacity to retain memory, making it inappropriate for dynamic…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-01 Jefferson Hernandez , Andres G. Abad

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

Restricted Boltzmann machines~(RBMs) and conditional RBMs~(CRBMs) are popular models for a wide range of applications. In previous work, learning on such models has been dominated by contrastive divergence~(CD) and its variants. Belief…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-06 Wei Ping , Alexander Ihler

Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBMs) are a common family of undirected graphical models with latent variables. An RBM is described by a bipartite graph, with all observed variables in one layer and all latent variables in the other. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Guy Bresler , Rares-Darius Buhai

We propose a data-driven approach using a Restricted Boltzmann Machine (RBM) to solve the Schr\"odinger equation in configuration space. Traditional Configuration Interaction (CI) methods construct the wavefunction as a linear combination…

Cognitive Diagnosis Models (CDMs) are a special family of discrete latent variable models that are widely used in modern educational, psychological, social and biological sciences. A key component of CDMs is a binary $Q$-matrix…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-01-08 Chenchen Ma , Gongjun Xu

Building a good generative model for image has long been an important topic in computer vision and machine learning. Restricted Boltzmann machine (RBM) is one of such models that is simple but powerful. However, its restricted form also has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-24 Hengyuan Hu , Lisheng Gao , Quanbin Ma

Recent work has proposed and explored using coreset techniques for quantum algorithms that operate on classical data sets to accelerate the applicability of these algorithms on near-term quantum devices. We apply these ideas to Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-28 Joshua Viszlai , Teague Tomesh , Pranav Gokhale , Eric Anschuetz , Frederic T. Chong

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

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

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

This is a tutorial and survey paper on Boltzmann Machine (BM), Restricted Boltzmann Machine (RBM), and Deep Belief Network (DBN). We start with the required background on probabilistic graphical models, Markov random field, Gibbs sampling,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Benyamin Ghojogh , Ali Ghodsi , Fakhri Karray , Mark Crowley