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Ordinal data is omnipresent in almost all multiuser-generated feedback - questionnaires, preferences etc. This paper investigates modelling of ordinal data with Gaussian restricted Boltzmann machines (RBMs). In particular, we present the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-08-04 Truyen Tran , Dinh Phung , Svetha Venkatesh

Restricted Boltzmann machines~(RBMs) and conditional RBMs~(CRBMs) are popular models for a wide range of applications. In previous work, learning on such models has been dominated by contrastive divergence~(CD) and its variants. Belief…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-06 Wei Ping , Alexander Ihler

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

The Restricted Boltzmann Machine (RBM), an important tool used in machine learning in particular for unsupervized learning tasks, is investigated from the perspective of its spectral properties. Starting from empirical observations, we…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-01-17 Aurélien Decelle , Giancarlo Fissore , Cyril Furtlehner

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

Restricted Boltzmann Machine (RBM) is an importan- t generative model modeling vectorial data. While applying an RBM in practice to images, the data have to be vec- torized. This results in high-dimensional data and valu- able spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-01-06 Guanglei Qi , Yanfeng Sun , Junbin Gao , Yongli Hu , Jinghua Li

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

We present a theoretical analysis of Gaussian-binary restricted Boltzmann machines (GRBMs) from the perspective of density models. The key aspect of this analysis is to show that GRBMs can be formulated as a constrained mixture of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-02-06 Nan Wang , Jan Melchior , Laurenz Wiskott

Many real-world tasks, from associative memory to symbolic reasoning, benefit from discrete, structured representations that standard continuous latent models can struggle to express. We introduce the Gaussian-Multinoulli Restricted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Nikhil Kapasi , Mohamed Elfouly , William Whitehead , Luke Theogarajan

The design of interpretable deep learning models working in relational domains poses an open challenge: interpretable deep learning methods, such as Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs), are not designed to solve relational problems, while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Pietro Barbiero , Francesco Giannini , Gabriele Ciravegna , Michelangelo Diligenti , Giuseppe Marra

Restricted Boltzmann Machine (RBM) is a generative stochastic energy-based model of artificial neural network for unsupervised learning. Recently, RBM is well known to be a pre-training method of Deep Learning. In addition to visible and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-12 Shin Kamada , Takumi Ichimura

We consider restricted Boltzmann machine (RBMs) trained over an unstructured dataset made of blurred copies of definite but unavailable ``archetypes'' and we show that there exists a critical sample size beyond which the RBM can learn…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-09-02 Elena Agliari , Francesco Alemanno , Adriano Barra , Giordano De Marzo

We investigate how machine learning models acquire the ability to compose music and how musical information is internally represented within such models. We develop a composition algorithm based on a restricted Boltzmann machine (RBM), a…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Mutsumi Kobayashi , Hiroshi Watanabe

Restricted Boltzmann Machines are generative models that consist of a layer of hidden variables connected to another layer of visible units, and they are used to model the distribution over visible variables. In order to gain a higher…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-20 Arkaitz Bidaurrazaga , Aritz Pérez , Roberto Santana

Restricted Boltzmann Machines are simple yet powerful neural networks. They can be used for learning structure in data, and are used as a building block of more complex neural architectures. At the same time, their simplicity makes them…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-01-09 Giovanni di Sarra , Barbara Bravi , Yasser Roudi

Estimation of Distribution Algorithms (EDAs) require flexible probability models that can be efficiently learned and sampled. Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBMs) are generative neural networks with these desired properties. We integrate an…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-12-01 Malte Probst , Franz Rothlauf , Jörn Grahl

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

Large-scale electrophysiological recordings now allow simultaneous monitoring of thousands of neurons across multiple brain regions, revealing structured variability in neural population activity. Understanding how these collective patterns…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-12 Nicolas Béreux , Giovanni Catania , Aurélien Decelle , Francesca Mignacco , Alfonso de Jesús Navas Gómez , Beatriz Seoane

Understanding the results of deep neural networks is an essential step towards wider acceptance of deep learning algorithms. Many approaches address the issue of interpreting artificial neural networks, but often provide divergent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Vadim Borisov , Johannes Meier , Johan van den Heuvel , Hamed Jalali , Gjergji Kasneci

A Restricted Boltzmann Machine (RBM) is an unsupervised machine-learning bipartite graphical model that jointly learns a probability distribution over data and extracts their relevant statistical features. As such, RBM were recently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Jérôme Tubiana , Simona Cocco , Rémi Monasson