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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

\noindent Hyper-parameter selection is a central practical problem in modern machine learning, governing regularization strength, model capacity, and robustness choices. Cross-validation is often computationally prohibitive at scale, while…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-24 Hedibert Lopes , Nick Polson , Vadim Sokolov

We present an efficient classical algorithm for training deep Boltzmann machines (DBMs) that uses rejection sampling in concert with variational approximations to estimate the gradients of the training objective function. Our algorithm is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-07-10 Nathan Wiebe , Ashish Kapoor , Christopher Granade , Krysta M Svore

Generative models are a class of AI models capable of creating new instances of data by learning and sampling from their statistical distributions. In recent years, these models have gained prominence in machine learning due to the…

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

Efficient unsupervised training and inference in deep generative models remains a challenging problem. One basic approach, called Helmholtz machine, involves training a top-down directed generative model together with a bottom-up auxiliary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-26 Jorg Bornschein , Samira Shabanian , Asja Fischer , Yoshua Bengio

In this article we provide a method for fully quantum generative training of quantum Boltzmann machines with both visible and hidden units while using quantum relative entropy as an objective. This is significant because prior methods were…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-27 Nathan Wiebe , Leonard Wossnig

Recently by the development of the Internet and the Web, different types of social media such as web blogs become an immense source of text data. Through the processing of these data, it is possible to discover practical information about…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Masoud Fatemi , Mehran Safayani

Boltzmann machines are energy-based models that have been shown to provide an accurate statistical description of domains of evolutionary-related protein and RNA families. They are parametrized in terms of local biases accounting for…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2021-11-03 Anna Paola Muntoni , Andrea Pagnani , Martin Weigt , Francesco Zamponi

Generative methods (Gen-AI) are reviewed with a particular goal of solving tasks in machine learning and Bayesian inference. Generative models require one to simulate a large training dataset and to use deep neural networks to solve a…

Computation · Statistics 2025-05-20 Maria Nareklishvili , Nick Polson , Vadim Sokolov

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

Heralded by the initial success in speech recognition and image classification, learning-based approaches with neural networks, commonly referred to as deep learning, have spread across various fields. A primitive form of a neural network…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Takuma Yoneda

We propose a novel approach for using unsupervised boosting to create an ensemble of generative models, where models are trained in sequence to correct earlier mistakes. Our meta-algorithmic framework can leverage any existing base learner…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-25 Aditya Grover , Stefano Ermon

Here we propose a novel model family with the objective of learning to disentangle the factors of variation in data. Our approach is based on the spike-and-slab restricted Boltzmann machine which we generalize to include higher-order…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-10-22 Guillaume Desjardins , Aaron Courville , Yoshua Bengio

In this paper, we implement an information-theoretic approach to travel behaviour analysis by introducing a generative modelling framework to identify informative latent characteristics in travel decision making. It involves developing a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Melvin Wong , Bilal Farooq

Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBMs) are one of the fundamental building blocks of deep learning. Approximate maximum likelihood training of RBMs typically necessitates sampling from these models. In many training scenarios, computationally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-10-02 Guillaume Desjardins , Heng Luo , Aaron Courville , Yoshua Bengio

While deep generative models (DGMs) have gained popularity, their susceptibility to biases and other inefficiencies that lead to undesirable outcomes remains an issue. With their growing complexity, there is a critical need for early…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Vidya Prasad , Anna Vilanova , Nicola Pezzotti

Significant advances in deep learning have led to more widely used and precise neural network-based generative models such as Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). We introduce a post-hoc correction to deep generative models to further…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-30 Sascha Diefenbacher , Engin Eren , Gregor Kasieczka , Anatolii Korol , Benjamin Nachman , David Shih

Probabilistic graphical models (PGMs) are widely used to discover latent structure in data, but their success hinges on selecting an appropriate model design. In practice, model specification is difficult and often requires iterative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Kevin Zhang , Yixin Wang

Generative models offer a direct way of modeling complex data. Energy-based models attempt to encode the statistical correlations observed in the data at the level of the Boltzmann weight associated with an energy function in the form of a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-04-10 Aurélien Decelle , Cyril Furtlehner , Alfonso De Jesus Navas Gómez , Beatriz Seoane