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Geometric frustration gives rise to emergent quantum phenomena and exotic phases of matter. While Monte Carlo methods are traditionally used to simulate such systems, their sampling efficiency is limited by the complexity of interactions…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-27 Pratik Brahma , Junghoon Han , Tamzid Razzaque , Saavan Patel , Sayeef Salahuddin

Machine learning algorithms often take inspiration from established results and knowledge from statistical physics. A prototypical example is the Boltzmann machine algorithm for supervised learning, which utilizes knowledge of classical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-12-04 Tatjana Puskarov , Axel Cortes Cubero

To investigate GRBs in depth, it is crucial to develop an effective method for identifying GRBs accurately. Current criteria, e.g., onboard blind search, ground blind search, and target search, are limited by manually set thresholds and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-20 Peng Zhang , Bing Li , RenZhou Gui , Shaolin Xiong , Ze-Cheng Zou , Xianggao Wang , Xiaobo Li , Ce Cai , Yi Zhao , Yanqiu Zhang , Wangchen Xue , Chao Zheng , Hongyu Zhao

Efficient sampling from high-dimensional and multimodal unnormalized probability distributions is a central challenge in many areas of science and machine learning. We focus on Boltzmann generators (BGs) that aim to sample the Boltzmann…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Christopher von Klitzing , Denis Blessing , Henrik Schopmans , Pascal Friederich , Gerhard Neumann

\textit{Objectives}: Data scarcity and domain shifts lead to biased training sets that do not accurately represent deployment conditions. A related practical problem is cross-modal image segmentation, where the objective is to segment…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-01 Guillaume Sallé , Pierre-Henri Conze , Julien Bert , Nicolas Boussion , Dimitris Visvikis , Vincent Jaouen

While generative adversarial networks (GAN) are popular for their higher sample quality as opposed to other generative models like the variational autoencoders (VAE) and Boltzmann machines, they suffer from the same difficulty of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Harshvardhan GM , Aanchal Sahu , Mahendra Kumar Gourisaria

Generic Event Boundary Detection (GEBD) is a newly introduced task that aims to detect "general" event boundaries that correspond to natural human perception. In this paper, we introduce a novel contrastive learning based approach to deal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Hyolim Kang , Jinwoo Kim , Kyungmin Kim , Taehyun Kim , Seon Joo Kim

Bayesian Neural Networks (BNNs) have been proposed to address the problem of model uncertainty in training and inference. By introducing weights associated with conditioned probability distributions, BNNs are capable of resolving the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Ruizhe Cai , Ao Ren , Ning Liu , Caiwen Ding , Luhao Wang , Xuehai Qian , Massoud Pedram , Yanzhi Wang

Understanding the dynamics of a system is important in many scientific and engineering domains. This problem can be approached by learning state transition rules from observations using machine learning techniques. Such observed time-series…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Koji Watanabe , Katsumi Inoue

Gaussian Boson Sampling (GBS) is a quantum computational model that leverages linear optics to solve sampling problems believed to be classically intractable. Recent experimental breakthroughs have demonstrated quantum advantage using GBS,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-29 Jesua Epequin , Pascale Bendotti , Joseph Mikael

In this study, a novel machine learning algorithm, restricted Boltzmann machine (RBM), is introduced. The algorithm is applied for the spectral classification in astronomy. RBM is a bipartite generative graphical model with two separate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-10-15 Fuqiang Chen , Yan Wu , Yude Bu , Guodong Zhao

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

A wide range of models have been proposed for Graph Generative Models, necessitating effective methods to evaluate their quality. So far, most techniques use either traditional metrics based on subgraph counting, or the representations of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-06-14 Hamed Shirzad , Kaveh Hassani , Danica J. Sutherland

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

The cumulative shrinkage process is an increasing shrinkage prior that can be employed within models in which additional terms are supposed to play a progressively negligible role. A natural application is to Gaussian factor models, where…

Computation · Statistics 2020-08-13 Sirio Legramanti

Sampling from lattice Gaussian distribution has emerged as an important problem in coding, decoding and cryptography. In this paper, the classic Gibbs algorithm from Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods is demonstrated to be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-03 Zheng Wang

The goal of this paper is to deal with a data scarcity scenario where deep learning techniques use to fail. We compare the use of two well established techniques, Restricted Boltzmann Machines and Variational Auto-encoders, as generative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Juan Maroñas , Roberto Paredes , Daniel Ramos

A goal of unsupervised machine learning is to build representations of complex high-dimensional data, with simple relations to their properties. Such disentangled representations make easier to interpret the significant latent factors of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Jorge Fernandez-de-Cossio-Diaz , Simona Cocco , Remi Monasson

We consider stochastic approximations of sampling algorithms, such as Stochastic Gradient Langevin Dynamics (SGLD) and the Random Batch Method (RBM) for Interacting Particle Dynamcs (IPD). We observe that the noise introduced by the…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-10-10 Aniket Das , Dheeraj Nagaraj , Anant Raj

The major paradigm of applying a pre-trained language model to downstream tasks is to fine-tune it on labeled task data, which often suffers instability and low performance when the labeled examples are scarce.~One way to alleviate this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Ruikun Luo , Guanhuan Huang , Xiaojun Quan