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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

We derive relations between theoretical properties of restricted Boltzmann machines (RBMs), popular machine learning models which form the building blocks of deep learning models, and several natural notions from discrete mathematics and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-09-22 Guido F. Montufar , Jason Morton

Restricted Boltzmann Machines are generative models that consist of a layer of hidden variables connected to another layer of visible units, and they are used to model the distribution over visible variables. In order to gain a higher…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-20 Arkaitz Bidaurrazaga , Aritz Pérez , Roberto Santana

We propose a scheme to calibrate the internal parameters of a quantum annealer to obtain well-approximated samples for training a restricted Boltzmann machine (RBM). Empirically, samples from quantum annealers obey the Boltzmann…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-18 Takeru Goto , Masayuki Ohzeki

Although several models have been proposed towards assisting machine learning (ML) tasks with quantum computers, a direct comparison of the expressive power and efficiency of classical versus quantum models for datasets originating from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-09 Javier Alcazar , Vicente Leyton-Ortega , Alejandro Perdomo-Ortiz

Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems have shown good success at classifying. However, the lack of explainability is a true and significant challenge, especially in high-stakes domains, such as health and finance, where understanding is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-14 A. M. A. S. D. Alagiyawanna , Asoka Karunananda , Thushari Silva , A. Mahasinghe

Machine learning is a vital part of many real-world systems, but several concerns remain about the lack of interpretability, explainability and robustness of black-box AI systems. Concept Bottleneck Models (CBM) address some of these…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-24 Hidde Fokkema , Tim van Erven , Sara Magliacane

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

Restricted Boltzmann machines (RBMs) are a class of neural networks that have been successfully employed as a variational ansatz for quantum many-body wave functions. Here, we develop an analytic method to study quantum many-body spin…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-06 Xiao-Qi Sun , Tamra Nebabu , Xizhi Han , Michael O. Flynn , Xiao-Liang Qi

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

Interactive assessments generate sequential process data that are not well handled by conventional item response models. Existing MDP-based measurement approaches, such as the Markov decision process measurement model (MDP-MM, LaMar, 2018),…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-12 Wenqian Xu , Feng Ji

Restricted Boltzmann machines (RBMs) have demonstrated considerable success as variational quantum states; however, their representational power remains incompletely understood. In this work, we present an analytical proof that RBMs can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-29 Yuan-Hang Zhang , Zhian Jia , Yu-Chun Wu , Guang-Can Guo

Autonomous magnetic catheter systems are emerging as a promising approach for the future of minimally invasive interventions. This study presents a novel approach that begins by modeling the nonlinear and hysteretic dynamics of a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-25 Arya Rashidinejad Meibodi , Mahbod Gholamali Sinaki , Khalil Alipour

Large language models (LLMs) represent a significant advancement in integrating physical robots with AI-driven systems. We showcase the capabilities of our framework within the context of the real-world household competition. This research…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Shady Nasrat , Myungsu Kim , Seonil Lee , Jiho Lee , Yeoncheol Jang , Seung-joon Yi

We use the Reward Biased Maximum Likelihood Estimation (RBMLE) algorithm to learn optimal policies for constrained Markov Decision Processes (CMDPs). We analyze the learning regrets of RBMLE.

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-31 Rahul Singh

Recent surge of interests in cognitive assessment has led to the developments of novel statistical models for diagnostic classification. Central to many such models is the well-known Q-matrix, which specifies the item-attribute…

Methodology · Statistics 2011-06-06 Jingchen Liu , Gongjun Xu , Zhiliang Ying

In this work, we introduce a new procedure for applying Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBMs) to missing data inference tasks, based on linearization of the effective energy function governing the distribution of observations. We compare the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Chris Cannella , Jie Ding , Mohammadreza Soltani , Vahid Tarokh

Reinforcement learning (RL) has seen significant research and application results but often requires large amounts of training data. This paper proposes two data-efficient off-policy RL methods that use parametrized Q-learning. In these…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-09 J. S. van Hulst , W. P. M. H. Heemels , D. J. Antunes

Neural-network state representations of quantum many-body systems are attracting great attention and more rigorous quantitative analysis about their expressibility and complexity is warranted. Our analysis of the restricted Boltzmann…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-24 Ruizhi Pan , Charles W. Clark

Recent work has shown that representation learning plays a critical role in sample-efficient reinforcement learning (RL) from pixels. Unfortunately, in real-world scenarios, representation learning is usually fragile to task-irrelevant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Qiyuan Liu , Qi Zhou , Rui Yang , Jie Wang