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Signal modeling lies at the core of numerous signal and image processing applications. A recent approach that has drawn considerable attention is sparse representation modeling, in which the signal is assumed to be generated as a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Tomer Peleg , Yonina C. Eldar , Michael Elad

In the course of evolution, proteins show a remarkable conservation of their three-dimensional structure and their biological function, leading to strong evolutionary constraints on the sequence variability between homologous proteins. Our…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2014-04-07 Carlo Baldassi , Marco Zamparo , Christoph Feinauer , Andrea Procaccini , Riccardo Zecchina , Martin Weigt , Andrea Pagnani

Gaussian Processes (GPs) are powerful kernelized methods for non-parameteric regression used in many applications. However, their use is limited to a few thousand of training samples due to their cubic time complexity. In order to scale GPs…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-12-20 Manuel Schürch , Dario Azzimonti , Alessio Benavoli , Marco Zaffalon

Recent generative learning models applied to protein multiple sequence alignment (MSA) datasets include simple and interpretable physics-based Potts covariation models and other machine learning models such as MSA-Transformer (MSA-T). The…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-10-28 Kisan Khatri , Ronald M. Levy , Allan Haldane

Stochastic-sampling-based Generative Neural Networks, such as Restricted Boltzmann Machines and Generative Adversarial Networks, are now used for applications such as denoising, image occlusion removal, pattern completion, and motion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Alexander Potapov , Ian Colbert , Ken Kreutz-Delgado , Alexander Cloninger , Srinjoy Das

Spatially proximate amino acids in a protein tend to coevolve. A protein's three-dimensional (3D) structure hence leaves an echo of correlations in the evolutionary record. Reverse engineering 3D structures from such correlations is an open…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2013-01-15 Magnus Ekeberg , Cecilia Lövkvist , Yueheng Lan , Martin Weigt , Erik Aurell

Recent advances in artificial intelligence have relied heavily on increasingly large neural networks, raising concerns about their computational and environmental costs. This paper investigates whether simpler, sparser networks can maintain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 C. Díaz-Faloh , R. Mulet

A restricted Boltzmann machine (RBM) is an undirected graphical model constructed for discrete or continuous random variables, with two layers, one hidden and one visible, and no conditional dependency within a layer. In recent years, RBMs…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-09-12 Andee Kaplan , Daniel Nordman , Stephen Vardeman

A general approach to provide approximate parameterizations of the "small" scales by the "large" ones, is developed for stochastic partial differential equations driven by linear multiplicative noise. This is accomplished via the concept of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-10-16 Mickael D. Chekroun , Honghu Liu , Shouhong Wang

We present the MSA-to-protein transformer, a generative model of protein sequences conditioned on protein families represented by multiple sequence alignments (MSAs). Unlike existing approaches to learning generative models of protein…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-04-05 Soumya Ram , Tristan Bepler

The deep extension of the restricted Boltzmann machine (RBM), known as the deep Boltzmann machine (DBM), is an expressive family of machine learning models which can serve as compact representations of complex probability distributions.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Haik Manukian , Massimiliano Di Ventra

Boltzmann Machines trained on evolutionary sequence data have emerged as a powerful paradigm for the data-driven design of artificial proteins. However, the relationship between model architecture, specifically parameter density, and…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-06 Roberto Netti , Emily Hinds , Francesco Calvanese , Rama Ranganathan , Martin Weigt , Francesco Zamponi

Knowledge of a protein's atomic conformational ensemble is critical to determining its function, yet state-of-the-art ensemble prediction models are limited by lack of high-quality conformational data from simulation or experiment. Recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jay Shenoy , Miro Astore , Axel Levy , Frédéric Poitevin , Sonya M. Hanson , Gordon Wetzstein

Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBMs) and models derived from them have been successfully used as basic building blocks in deep artificial neural networks for automatic features extraction, unsupervised weights initialization, but also as…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-07-20 Decebal Constantin Mocanu , Elena Mocanu , Phuong H. Nguyen , Madeleine Gibescu , Antonio Liotta

Linear Mixed Models (LMMs) are important tools in statistical genetics. When used for feature selection, they allow to find a sparse set of genetic traits that best predict a continuous phenotype of interest, while simultaneously correcting…

Efficient sampling from the Boltzmann distribution given its energy function is a key challenge for modeling complex physical systems such as molecules. Boltzmann Generators address this problem by leveraging continuous normalizing flows to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Rishal Aggarwal , Jacky Chen , Nicholas M. Boffi , David Ryan Koes

Generative modeling over discrete structures underpins applications across deep learning, from biological sequence design and code generation to large language models, yet generation often remains sequential, relying on autoregressive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Fred Zhangzhi Peng , Avishek Joey Bose , Anru R. Zhang , Alexander Tong

We train a set of Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBMs) on one- and two-dimensional Ising spin configurations at various values of temperature, generated using Monte Carlo simulations. We validate the training procedure by monitoring several…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-08-14 Guido Cossu , Luigi Del Debbio , Tommaso Giani , Ava Khamseh , Michael Wilson

Both linear mixed models (LMMs) and sparse regression models are widely used in genetics applications, including, recently, polygenic modeling in genome-wide association studies. These two approaches make very different assumptions, so are…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2012-11-16 Xiang Zhou , Peter Carbonetto , Matthew Stephens

Restricted Boltzmann machines (RBMs) have proven to be a powerful tool for learning quantum wavefunction representations from qubit projective measurement data. Since the number of classical parameters needed to encode a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-06 Anna Golubeva , Roger G. Melko