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A Boltzmann machine is a stochastic neural network that has been extensively used in the layers of deep architectures for modern machine learning applications. In this paper, we develop a Boltzmann machine that is capable of modelling…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-10-18 Giacomo Torlai , Roger G. Melko

We study Generalised Restricted Boltzmann Machines with generic priors for units and weights, interpolating between Boolean and Gaussian variables. We present a complete analysis of the replica symmetric phase diagram of these systems,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-11-01 Adriano Barra , Giuseppe Genovese , Peter Sollich , Daniele Tantari

We propose ratio divergence (RD) learning for discrete energy-based models, a method that utilizes both training data and a tractable target energy function. We apply RD learning to restricted Boltzmann machines (RBMs), which are a minimal…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-09 Yuichi Ishida , Yuma Ichikawa , Aki Dote , Toshiyuki Miyazawa , Koji Hukushima

Training in machine learning generally consists in finding one model, whose parameters minimize a data-dependent loss. Yet, empirical work shows that ensemble learning, an approach in which multiple models are sampled, can improve…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-04-28 Thomas Tulinski , Jorge Fernandez-De-Cossio-Diaz , Simona Cocco , Rémi Monasson

We show that Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBMs) provide a flexible generative framework for modeling spin configurations in disordered yet strongly correlated phases of frustrated magnets. As a benchmark, we first demonstrate that an RBM…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-19 Ho Jang , Jackson C. Glass , Gia-Wei Chern

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

Optimization problems, particularly NP-Hard Combinatorial Optimization problems, are some of the hardest computing problems with no known polynomial time algorithm existing. Recently there has been interest in using dedicated hardware to…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Saavan Patel , Lili Chen , Philip Canoza , Sayeef Salahuddin

Energy-based generative models, such as restricted Boltzmann machines (RBMs), require unbiased Boltzmann samples for effective training. Classical Markov chain Monte Carlo methods, however, converge slowly and yield correlated samples,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-16 Gilhan Kim , Ju-Yeon Gyhm , Daniel K. Park

We employ a machine-learning force field, trained by a neural network (NN) with bispectrum coefficients as descriptors, to investigate the short-range order (SRO) influences on the BCC NbMoTaW alloy strengthening mechanism. The NN…

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

The restricted Boltzmann machine (RBM) is a representative generative model based on the concept of statistical mechanics. In spite of the strong merit of interpretability, unavailability of backpropagation makes it less competitive than…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Juno Hwang , Wonseok Hwang , Junghyo Jo

We investigate the phase diagram and memory retrieval capabilities of bipartite energy-based neural networks, namely Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBMs), as a function of the prior distribution imposed on their hidden units - including…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-12-03 Tony Bonnaire , Giovanni Catania , Aurélien Decelle , Beatriz Seoane

The deep Boltzmann machine (DBM) has been an important development in the quest for powerful "deep" probabilistic models. To date, simultaneous or joint training of all layers of the DBM has been largely unsuccessful with existing training…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2012-03-21 Guillaume Desjardins , Aaron Courville , Yoshua Bengio

This paper introduces the combinatorial Boolean model (CBM), which is defined as the class of linear combinations of conjunctions of Boolean attributes. This paper addresses the issue of learning CBM from labeled data. CBM is of high…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-11-27 Taito Lee , Shin Matsushima , Kenji Yamanishi

Most accurate recommender systems are black-box models, hiding the reasoning behind their recommendations. Yet explanations have been shown to increase the user's trust in the system in addition to providing other benefits such as…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-06-24 Behnoush Abdollahi , Olfa Nasraoui

Restricted Boltzmann Machines are simple and powerful generative models that can encode any complex dataset. Despite all their advantages, in practice the trainings are often unstable and it is difficult to assess their quality because the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Nicolas Béreux , Aurélien Decelle , Cyril Furtlehner , Beatriz Seoane

In audio applications, one of the most important representations of audio signals is the amplitude spectrogram. It is utilized in many machine-learning-based information processing methods including the ones using the restricted Boltzmann…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-26 Toru Nakashika , Kohei Yatabe

Restricted kernel machines (RKMs) have demonstrated a significant impact in enhancing generalization ability in the field of machine learning. Recent studies have introduced various methods within the RKM framework, combining kernel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 A. Quadir , M. Sajid , M. Tanveer

The prediction of spectral properties via linear response (LR) theory is an important tool in quantum chemistry for understanding photo-induced processes in molecular systems. With the advances of quantum computing, we recently adapted this…

We develop a machine learning method to construct accurate ground-state wave functions of strongly interacting and entangled quantum spin as well as fermionic models on lattices. A restricted Boltzmann machine algorithm in the form of an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-11-30 Yusuke Nomura , Andrew S. Darmawan , Youhei Yamaji , Masatoshi Imada