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Boltzmann machine
A Boltzmann machine (also called Sherrington–Kirkpatrick model with external field or stochastic Ising model), named after Ludwig Boltzmann, is a spin-glass model with an external field, i.e., a Sherrington–Kirkpatrick model, that is a stochastic Ising model. It is a statistical physics technique applied in the context of cognitive science. It is also classified as a Markov random field.
Boltzmann machines are theoretically intriguing because of the locality and Hebbian nature of their training algorithm (being trained by Hebb's rule), and because of their parallelism and the resemblance of their dynamics to simple physical processes. Boltzmann machines with unconstrained connectivity have not been proven useful for practical problems in machine learning or inference, but if the connectivity is properly constrained, the learning can be made efficient enough to be useful for practical problems.
They are named after the Boltzmann distribution in statistical mechanics, which is used in their sampling function. They were heavily popularized and promoted by Geoffrey Hinton, Terry Sejnowski and Yann LeCun in cognitive sciences communities, particularly in machine learning, as part of "energy-based models" (EBM), because Hamiltonians of spin glasses as energy are used as a starting point to define the learning task.
A Boltzmann machine, like a Sherrington–Kirkpatrick model, is a network of units with a total "energy" (Hamiltonian) defined for the overall network. Its units produce binary results. Boltzmann machine weights are stochastic. The global energy in a Boltzmann machine is identical in form to that of Hopfield networks and Ising models:
Where:
Often the weights are represented as a symmetric matrix with zeros along the diagonal.
![{\displaystyle W=[w_{ij}]}](https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/fe9447624ebb1e3c8ba2dacefbb62681ea40590e)
The difference in the global energy that results from a single unit equaling 0 (off) versus 1 (on), written , assuming a symmetric matrix of weights, is given by:
This can be expressed as the difference of energies of two states:
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Boltzmann machine
A Boltzmann machine (also called Sherrington–Kirkpatrick model with external field or stochastic Ising model), named after Ludwig Boltzmann, is a spin-glass model with an external field, i.e., a Sherrington–Kirkpatrick model, that is a stochastic Ising model. It is a statistical physics technique applied in the context of cognitive science. It is also classified as a Markov random field.
Boltzmann machines are theoretically intriguing because of the locality and Hebbian nature of their training algorithm (being trained by Hebb's rule), and because of their parallelism and the resemblance of their dynamics to simple physical processes. Boltzmann machines with unconstrained connectivity have not been proven useful for practical problems in machine learning or inference, but if the connectivity is properly constrained, the learning can be made efficient enough to be useful for practical problems.
They are named after the Boltzmann distribution in statistical mechanics, which is used in their sampling function. They were heavily popularized and promoted by Geoffrey Hinton, Terry Sejnowski and Yann LeCun in cognitive sciences communities, particularly in machine learning, as part of "energy-based models" (EBM), because Hamiltonians of spin glasses as energy are used as a starting point to define the learning task.
A Boltzmann machine, like a Sherrington–Kirkpatrick model, is a network of units with a total "energy" (Hamiltonian) defined for the overall network. Its units produce binary results. Boltzmann machine weights are stochastic. The global energy in a Boltzmann machine is identical in form to that of Hopfield networks and Ising models:
Where:
Often the weights are represented as a symmetric matrix with zeros along the diagonal.
The difference in the global energy that results from a single unit equaling 0 (off) versus 1 (on), written , assuming a symmetric matrix of weights, is given by:
This can be expressed as the difference of energies of two states: