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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…

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We describe a class of growth algorithms for finding low energy states of heteropolymers. These polymers form toy models for proteins, and the hope is that similar methods will ultimately be useful for finding native states of real proteins…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Grassberger

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

Energy-based generative models, such as restricted Boltzmann machines (RBMs), require unbiased Boltzmann samples for effective training. Classical Markov chain Monte Carlo methods, however, converge slowly and yield correlated samples,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-16 Gilhan Kim , Ju-Yeon Gyhm , Daniel K. Park

In recent years, machine learning has demonstrated impressive capability in handling molecular science tasks. To support various molecular properties at scale, machine learning models are trained in the multi-task learning paradigm.…

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Sampling equilibrium molecular configurations from the Boltzmann distribution is a longstanding challenge. Boltzmann Generators (BGs) address this by combining exact-likelihood generative models with importance sampling, but practical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Weilong Chen , Bojun Zhao , Jan Eckwert , Julija Zavadlav

The generation of conformers has been a long-standing interest to structural chemists and biologists alike. A subset of proteins known as intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) fail to exhibit a fixed structure and, therefore, must also…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-11-22 Yash Patel , Ambuj Tewari

Data imbalance in training data often leads to biased predictions from trained models, which in turn causes ethical and social issues. A straightforward solution is to carefully curate training data, but given the enormous scale of modern…

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Graphical models are powerful tools for modeling high-dimensional data, but learning graphical models in the presence of latent variables is well-known to be difficult. In this work we give new results for learning Restricted Boltzmann…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Surbhi Goel , Adam Klivans , Frederic Koehler

Efficient sampling from the Boltzmann distribution given its energy function is a key challenge for modeling complex physical systems such as molecules. Boltzmann Generators address this problem by leveraging continuous normalizing flows to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Rishal Aggarwal , Jacky Chen , Nicholas M. Boffi , David Ryan Koes

Advances in machine learning and increased computational power have driven progress in energy-related research. However, limited access to private energy data from buildings hinders traditional regression models relying on historical data.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Chun Fu , Hussain Kazmi , Matias Quintana , Clayton Miller

Use energy-based model for bridge-type innovation. The loss function is explained by the game theory, the logic is clear and the formula is simple and clear. Thus avoid the use of maximum likelihood estimation to explain the loss function…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Hongjun Zhang

Machine learning has affected the way in which many phenomena for various domains are modelled, one of these domains being that of structural dynamics. However, because machine-learning algorithms are problem-specific, they often fail to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-08 G. Tsialiamanis , N. Dervilis , D. J. Wagg , K. Worden

Scalable sampling of molecular states in thermodynamic equilibrium is a long-standing challenge in statistical physics. Boltzmann generators tackle this problem by pairing normalizing flows with importance sampling to obtain uncorrelated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Charlie B. Tan , Avishek Joey Bose , Chen Lin , Leon Klein , Michael M. Bronstein , Alexander Tong

Generative models have the ability to synthesize data points drawn from the data distribution, however, not all generated samples are high quality. In this paper, we propose using a combination of coresets selection methods and ``entropic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Omead Pooladzandi , Pasha Khosravi , Erik Nijkamp , Baharan Mirzasoleiman

Advances in deep generative modelling have not translated well to tabular data. We argue that this is caused by a mismatch in structure between popular generative models and discriminative models of tabular data. We thus devise a technique…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Junwei Ma , Apoorv Dankar , George Stein , Guangwei Yu , Anthony Caterini

Generative models are used in a wide range of applications building on large amounts of contextually rich information. Due to possible privacy violations of the individuals whose data is used to train these models, however, publishing or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-16 Gergely Acs , Luca Melis , Claude Castelluccia , Emiliano De Cristofaro

We investigate the thermodynamic properties of a Restricted Boltzmann Machine (RBM), a simple energy-based generative model used in the context of unsupervised learning. Assuming the information content of this model to be mainly reflected…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-08-20 Aurélien Decelle , Giancarlo Fissore , Cyril Furtlehner

Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBMs) and models derived from them have been successfully used as basic building blocks in deep artificial neural networks for automatic features extraction, unsupervised weights initialization, but also as…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-07-20 Decebal Constantin Mocanu , Elena Mocanu , Phuong H. Nguyen , Madeleine Gibescu , Antonio Liotta

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