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arxiv: 1708.06008 · v2 · pith:PKRWBNPNnew · submitted 2017-08-20 · 💻 cs.NE

Boltzmann machines and energy-based models

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keywords boltzmannenergy-basedmachinemodelsgradientmachinesadmitalternatives
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We review Boltzmann machines and energy-based models. A Boltzmann machine defines a probability distribution over binary-valued patterns. One can learn parameters of a Boltzmann machine via gradient based approaches in a way that log likelihood of data is increased. The gradient and Hessian of a Boltzmann machine admit beautiful mathematical representations, although computing them is in general intractable. This intractability motivates approximate methods, including Gibbs sampler and contrastive divergence, and tractable alternatives, namely energy-based models.

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