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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 a powerful class of generative models, but their training requires computing a gradient that, unlike supervised backpropagation on typical loss functions, is notoriously difficult even to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Haik Manukian , Yan Ru Pei , Sean R. B. Bearden , Massimiliano Di Ventra

Generalization is one of the most important issues in machine learning problems. In this study, we consider generalization in restricted Boltzmann machines (RBMs). We propose an RBM with multivalued hidden variables, which is a simple…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-01-09 Yuuki Yokoyama , Tomu Katsumata , Muneki Yasuda

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

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

The Restricted Boltzmann Machine (RBM) is one of the simplest generative neural networks capable of learning input distributions. Despite its simplicity, the analysis of its performance in learning from the training data is only well…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Yizhou Xu , Florent Krzakala , Lenka Zdeborová

Graphical models are a rich language for describing high-dimensional distributions in terms of their dependence structure. While there are algorithms with provable guarantees for learning undirected graphical models in a variety of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Guy Bresler , Frederic Koehler , Ankur Moitra , Elchanan Mossel

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

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

Generative neural networks can produce data samples according to the statistical properties of their training distribution. This feature can be used to test modern computational neuroscience hypotheses suggesting that spontaneous brain…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Lorenzo Tausani , Alberto Testolin , Marco Zorzi

The great success of neural networks in recognizing hidden patterns and correlations in complex data lies in the way they take advantage of the large number of parameters and nonlinear single-unit activation, jointly. Restricted Boltzmann…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-05-20 Giovanni di Sarra , Yasser Roudi

Restricted Boltzmann Machine (RBM) is a particular type of random neural network models modeling vector data based on the assumption of Bernoulli distribution. For multi-dimensional and non-binary data, it is necessary to vectorize and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-28 Simeng Liu , Yanfeng Sun , Yongli Hu , Junbin Gao , Baocai Yin

Graphical models are powerful tools for modeling high-dimensional data, but learning graphical models in the presence of latent variables is well-known to be difficult. In this work we give new results for learning Restricted Boltzmann…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Surbhi Goel , Adam Klivans , Frederic Koehler

This review deals with Restricted Boltzmann Machine (RBM) under the light of statistical physics. The RBM is a classical family of Machine learning (ML) models which played a central role in the development of deep learning. Viewing it as a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-07-17 Aurélien Decelle , Cyril Furtlehner

We consider restricted Boltzmann machines with a binary visible layer and a Gaussian hidden layer trained by an unlabelled dataset composed of noisy realizations of a single ground pattern. We develop a statistical mechanics framework to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-06-17 Alberto Fachechi , Elena Agliari , Miriam Aquaro , Anthony Coolen , Menno Mulder

The restricted Boltzmann machine (RBM) is one of the fundamental building blocks of deep learning. RBM finds wide applications in dimensional reduction, feature extraction, and recommender systems via modeling the probability distributions…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-02-07 Jing Chen , Song Cheng , Haidong Xie , Lei Wang , Tao Xiang

Generative modeling with machine learning has provided a new perspective on the data-driven task of reconstructing quantum states from a set of qubit measurements. As increasingly large experimental quantum devices are built in…

Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBM) are simple statistical models defined on a bipartite graph which have been successfully used in studying more complicated many-body systems, both classical and quantum. In this work, we exploit the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-01-13 Ermal Rrapaj , Alessandro Roggero

We investigate the potential of a restricted Boltzmann Machine (RBM) for discriminative representation learning. By imposing the class information preservation constraints on the hidden layer of the RBM, we propose a Signed Laplacian…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Dongdong Chen , Jiancheng Lv , Mike E. Davies

Machine Learning has been applied in a wide range of tasks throughout the last years, ranging from image classification to autonomous driving and natural language processing. Restricted Boltzmann Machine (RBM) has received recent attention…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Gustavo H. de Rosa , Mateus Roder , João P. Papa