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Boltzmann machines (BMs) are powerful energy-based generative models, but their heavy training cost has largely confined practical use to Restricted BMs (RBMs) trained with an efficient learning method called contrastive divergence. More…

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We develop a rigorous and implementable framework for Gibbs sampling of infinite-dimensional quantum systems governed by unbounded Hamiltonians. Extending dissipative Gibbs samplers beyond finite dimensions raises fundamental obstacles,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-02 Simon Becker , Cambyse Rouzé , Robert Salzmann

Boltzmann generators approach the sampling problem in many-body physics by combining a normalizing flow and a statistical reweighting method to generate samples of a physical system's equilibrium density. The equilibrium distribution is…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-12-02 Manuel Dibak , Leon Klein , Frank Noé

The Boltzmann equation is a powerful theoretical tool for modeling the collective dynamics of quantum many-body systems subject to external perturbations. Analysis of the equation gives access to linear response properties including…

Contemporary work implies generative machine learning models are capable of learning the phase behavior in condensed matter systems such as the Ising model. In this Letter, we utilize a score-based modeling procedure called Thermodynamic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-10-29 Eric R. Beyerle , Pratyush Tiwary

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

Restricted Boltzmann Machines and Deep Belief Networks have been successfully used in probabilistic generative model applications such as image occlusion removal, pattern completion and motion synthesis. Generative inference in such…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-02-22 Ojash Neopane , Srinjoy Das , Ery Arias-Castro , Kenneth Kreutz-Delgado

Efficient sampling of unnormalized probability densities such as the Boltzmann distribution of molecular systems is a longstanding challenge. Next to conventional approaches like molecular dynamics or Markov chain Monte Carlo, variational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Henrik Schopmans , Pascal Friederich

Accurate free-energy calculations are essential for predicting thermodynamic properties and phase stability, but existing methods are limited: phonon-based approaches neglect anharmonicity and liquids, while molecular dynamics (MD) is…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-19 Ekaterina Spirande , Timofei Miryashkin , Andrei Kolmakov , Alexander Shapeev

Energy-based models (EBMs) are flexible generative architectures inspired by statistical physics, but their learning and generative properties remain poorly understood. Here, we analyze a solvable EBM in the high-dimensional limit: the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Thomas Tulinski , Simona Cocco , Rémi Monasson , Jorge Fernandez-De-Cossio-Diaz

Focusing on the grand-canonical extension of the ordinary restricted Boltzmann machine, we suggest an energy-based model for feature extraction that uses a layer of hidden units with varying size. By an appropriate choice of the chemical…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-12-13 Orestis Loukas

Boltzmann machines are physics informed generative models with wide applications in machine learning. They can learn the probability distribution from an input dataset and generate new samples accordingly. Applying them back to physics, the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-11-20 Lei Wang

Boltzmann machine is a powerful tool for modeling probability distributions that govern the training data. A thermal equilibrium state is typically used for Boltzmann machine learning to obtain a suitable probability distribution. The…

Restricted Boltzmann Machines are a class of undirected graphical models that play a key role in deep learning and unsupervised learning. In this study, we prove a phase transition phenomenon in the mixing time of the Gibbs sampler for a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Youngwoo Kwon , Qian Qin , Guanyang Wang , Yuchen Wei

It is a long-standing challenge to accurately and efficiently compute thermodynamic quantities of many-body systems at thermal equilibrium. The conventional methods, e.g., Markov chain Monte Carlo, require many steps to equilibrate. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-10 Shuo-Hui Li , Yao-Wen Zhang , Ding Pan

A hybrid quantum-classical method for learning Boltzmann machines (BM) for a generative and discriminative task is presented. Boltzmann machines are undirected graphs with a network of visible and hidden nodes where the former is used as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-21 Siddhartha Srivastava , Veera Sundararaghavan

The Boltzmann model for the random generation of "decomposable" combinatorial structures is a set of techniques that allows for efficient random sampling algorithms for a large class of families of discrete objects. The usual requirement of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-12-23 Philippe Duchon

Learning to sample from complex unnormalized distributions is a fundamental challenge in computational physics and machine learning. While score-based and variational methods have achieved success in continuous domains, extending them to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-11 Lei Li , Zhen Wang , Lishuo Zhang

Boltzmann sampling based on Metropolis algorithm has been extensively used for simulating a canonical ensemble. An estimate of a mechanical property, like energy, of an equilibrium system, can be made by averaging over a large number…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-10-04 K P N Murthy

The free-energy lattice Boltzmann (LB) model is one of the major multiphase models in the LB community. The present study is focused on a class of free-energy LB models in which the divergence of thermodynamic pressure tensor or its…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-01-20 Q. Li , Y. Yu , R. Z. Huang