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A Tiny Boltzmann Machine

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Re: A Tiny Boltzmann Machine

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Post by nayuki »

Oh, this is a neat demo. I took Geoff Hinton's neural networks course in university 15 years ago and he did spend a couple of lectures explaining Boltzmann machines.

> A Restricted Boltzmann Machine is a special case where the visible and hidden neurons are not connected to each other.

This wording is wrong; it implies that visible neurons are not connected to hidden neurons.

The correct wording is: visible neurons are not connected to each other and hidden neurons are not connected to each other.

Alternatively: visible and hidden neurons do not have internal connections within their own type.

Re: A Tiny Boltzmann Machine

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nayuki wrote: post #16

Oh, this is a neat demo. I took Geoff Hinton's neural networks course in university 15 years ago and he did spend a couple of lectures explaining Boltzmann machines. > A Restricted Boltzmann Machine is a special case where the visible and hidden neurons are not connected to each other. This wording is wrong; it implies that visible neurons are not connected to hidden neurons. The correct wording is: visible neurons a…

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Re: A Tiny Boltzmann Machine

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Post by croemer »

munchler wrote: post #15
tambourine_man wrote: post #14

Typo “The y can be used for generating new data that…”

Another typo (or thinko) in the very first sentence: "Here we introduce introduction to Boltzmann machines"

More typos (LLMs are really good at finding these):

"Press the "Run Simulation" button to start traininng the RBM." ("traininng" -> "training")

"...we want to derivce the contrastive divergence algorithm..." ("derivce" -> "derive")

"A visisble layer..." ("visisble" -> "visible")

Re: A Tiny Boltzmann Machine

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Post by CamperBob2 »

nayuki wrote: post #16

Oh, this is a neat demo. I took Geoff Hinton's neural networks course in university 15 years ago and he did spend a couple of lectures explaining Boltzmann machines. > A Restricted Boltzmann Machine is a special case where the visible and hidden neurons are not connected to each other. This wording is wrong; it implies that visible neurons are not connected to hidden neurons. The correct wording is: visible neurons a…

Alternatively: visible and hidden neurons do not have internal connections within their own type.

I'm a bit unclear on how that isn't just an MLP. What's different about a Boltzmann machine?

Edit: never mind, I didn't realize I needed to scroll up to get to the introductory overview.

What 0xTJ's [flagged][dead] comment says about it being undesirable to hijack or otherwise attempt to reinvent scrolling is spot on.

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