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Gaussian boson sampling (GBS) has emerged as a promising quantum computing paradigm, demonstrating its potential in various applications. However, most existing works focus on theoretical aspects or simple tasks, with limited exploration of…

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

Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBMs) are well-known tools used in Machine Learning to learn probability distribution functions from data. We analyse RBMs with scalar fields on the nodes from the perspective of lattice field theory. Starting…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-03-04 Gert Aarts , Biagio Lucini , Chanju Park

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

We report on simultaneous recordings from cells in all layers of visual cortex and models developed to capture the higher order structure of population spiking activity. Specifically, we use Ising, Restricted Boltzmann Machine (RBM) and…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2013-01-03 Urs Köster , Jascha Sohl-Dickstein , Charles M. Gray , Bruno A. Olshausen

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

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

The Gaussian-Bernoulli restricted Boltzmann machine (GB-RBM) is a useful generative model that captures meaningful features from the given $n$-dimensional continuous data. The difficulties associated with learning GB-RBM are reported…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Vidyadhar Upadhya , P S Sastry

Photonic neural networks offer a promising alternative to traditional electronic systems for machine learning accelerators due to their low latency and energy efficiency. However, the challenge of implementing the backpropagation algorithm…

We present a mathematical construction for the restricted Boltzmann machine (RBM) that doesn't require specifying the number of hidden units. In fact, the hidden layer size is adaptive and can grow during training. This is obtained by first…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-21 Marc-Alexandre Côté , Hugo Larochelle

Gradient Boosting Machines (GBM) are hugely popular for solving tabular data problems. However, practitioners are not only interested in point predictions, but also in probabilistic predictions in order to quantify the uncertainty of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Olivier Sprangers , Sebastian Schelter , Maarten de Rijke

Unsupervised neural nets such as Restricted Boltzmann Machines(RBMs) and Deep Belif Networks(DBNs), are powerful in automatic feature extraction,unsupervised weight initialization and density estimation. In this paper,we demonstrate that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Zhiwen Zuo , Lei Zhao , Liwen Zuo , Feng Jiang , Wei Xing , Dongming Lu

Probabilistic models based on Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBMs) imply the evaluation of normalized Boltzmann factors, which in turn require from the evaluation of the partition function Z. The exact evaluation of Z, though, becomes a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Ferran Mazzanti , Enrique Romero

We present the application of Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBMs) to the task of astronomical image classification using a quantum annealer built by D-Wave Systems. Morphological analysis of galaxies provides critical information for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-17 João Caldeira , Joshua Job , Steven H. Adachi , Brian Nord , Gabriel N. Perdue

We introduce a new approach to probabilistic unsupervised learning based on the recognition-parametrised model (RPM): a normalised semi-parametric hypothesis class for joint distributions over observed and latent variables. Under the key…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-21 William I. Walker , Hugo Soulat , Changmin Yu , Maneesh Sahani

Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBMs) are typically trained using finite-length Gibbs chains under a fixed sampling temperature. This practice implicitly assumes that the stochastic regime remains valid as the energy landscape evolves during…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Görkem Can Süleymanoğlu

We propose an extension of the Restricted Boltzmann Machine (RBM) that allows the joint shape and appearance of foreground objects in cluttered images to be modeled independently of the background. We present a learning scheme that learns…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2011-07-20 Nicolas Heess , Nicolas Le Roux , John Winn

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

In this age of information, images are a critical medium for storing and transmitting information. With the rapid growth of image data amount, visual compression and visual data perception are two important research topics attracting a lot…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-02 Yuefeng Zhang , Chuanmin Jia , Jiannhui Chang , Siwei Ma

We investigate the phase diagram and memory retrieval capabilities of bipartite energy-based neural networks, namely Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBMs), as a function of the prior distribution imposed on their hidden units - including…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-12-03 Tony Bonnaire , Giovanni Catania , Aurélien Decelle , Beatriz Seoane