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Energy-based models are popular in machine learning due to the elegance of their formulation and their relationship to statistical physics. Among these, the Restricted Boltzmann Machine (RBM), and its staple training algorithm contrastive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-04-09 Daniel Jiwoong Im , Ethan Buchman , Graham W. Taylor

This paper presents a novel approach to speaker subspace modelling based on Gaussian-Binary Restricted Boltzmann Machines (GRBM). The proposed model is based on the idea of shared factors as in the Probabilistic Linear Discriminant Analysis…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Danila Doroshin , Alexander Yamshinin , Nikolay Lubimov , Marina Nastasenko , Mikhail Kotov , Maxim Tkachenko

A local-valley (LV) centered approach to assessing the quality of sampling from Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBMs) was applied to the latest generation of the D-Wave quantum annealer. D-Wave and Gibbs samples from a classically trained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Abdelmoula El Yazizi , Samee U. Khan , Yaroslav Koshka

In this paper, we present a new idea for Transfer Learning (TL) based on Gibbs Sampling. Gibbs sampling is an algorithm in which instances are likely to transfer to a new state with a higher possibility with respect to a probability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Hossein Shahabadi Farahani , Alireza Fatehi , Mahdi Aliyari Shoorehdeli

Gravitational microlensing of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) provides a unique opportunity to probe compact dark matter and small-scale structures in the Universe. However, identifying such microlensed GRBs within large data sets is a significant…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-20 Mohammad H. Zhoolideh Haghighi , Zeinab Kalantari , Sohrab Rahvar , Alaa Ibrahim

This is a tutorial and survey paper on Boltzmann Machine (BM), Restricted Boltzmann Machine (RBM), and Deep Belief Network (DBN). We start with the required background on probabilistic graphical models, Markov random field, Gibbs sampling,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Benyamin Ghojogh , Ali Ghodsi , Fakhri Karray , Mark Crowley

Pre-trained diffusion models have been successfully used as priors in a variety of linear inverse problems, where the goal is to reconstruct a signal from noisy linear measurements. However, existing approaches require knowledge of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Naoki Murata , Koichi Saito , Chieh-Hsin Lai , Yuhta Takida , Toshimitsu Uesaka , Yuki Mitsufuji , Stefano Ermon

A longstanding problem in machine learning is to find unsupervised methods that can learn the statistical structure of high dimensional signals. In recent years, GANs have gained much attention as a possible solution to the problem, and in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Eitan Richardson , Yair Weiss

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

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

We present a Gibbs sampling solution to the map-making problem for CMB measurements, building on existing destriping methodology. Gibbs sampling breaks the computationally heavy destriping problem into two separate steps; noise filtering…

We present the Deep Convolutional Gaussian Mixture Model (DCGMM), a new probabilistic approach for image modeling capable of density estimation, sampling and tractable inference. DCGMM instances exhibit a CNN-like layered structure, in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Alexander Gepperth

We present transductive Boltzmann machines (TBMs), which firstly achieve transductive learning of the Gibbs distribution. While exact learning of the Gibbs distribution is impossible by the family of existing Boltzmann machines due to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-22 Mahito Sugiyama , Koji Tsuda , Hiroyuki Nakahara

The inadequate mixing of conventional Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods for multi-modal distributions presents a significant challenge in practical applications such as Bayesian inference and molecular dynamics. Addressing this, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-05-30 Wenlin Chen , Mingtian Zhang , Brooks Paige , José Miguel Hernández-Lobato , David Barber

The $\Lambda$ Cold Dark Matter ($\Lambda$CDM) cosmological model has been highly successful in predicting cosmic structure and evolution, yet recent precision measurements have highlighted discrepancies, especially in the Hubble constant…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-08 Purba Mukherjee , Maria Giovanna Dainotti , Konstantinos F. Dialektopoulos , Jackson Levi Said , Jurgen Mifsud

Conditional generative models, particularly diffusion-based methods, have recently been applied to graph prediction by modeling the target as a conditional distribution given the input graph, yielding competitive results compared to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Shaozhen Ma , Wei Huang , Hanchen Wang , Dong Wen , Wenjie Zhang

One of the fundamental tasks of science is to find explainable relationships between observed phenomena. One approach to this task that has received attention in recent years is based on probabilistic graphical modelling with sparsity…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-04-16 Peter Orchard , Felix Agakov , Amos Storkey

We introduce a novel approach to improve unsupervised hashing. Specifically, we propose a very efficient embedding method: Gaussian Mixture Model embedding (Gemb). The proposed method, using Gaussian Mixture Model, embeds feature vector…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-05 Tuan Hoang , Thanh-Toan Do , Dang-Khoa Le Tan , Ngai-Man Cheung

Restricted Boltzmann machines are undirected neural networks which have been shown to be effective in many applications, including serving as initializations for training deep multi-layer neural networks. One of the main reasons for their…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-02-11 Marylou Gabrié , Eric W. Tramel , Florent Krzakala

Generating high-quality random numbers with a Gaussian probability distribution function is an important and resource consuming computational task for many applications in the fields of machine learning and Monte Carlo algorithms. Recently,…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Punyashloka Debashis , Hai Li , Dmitri Nikonov , Ian Young