title: Advanced mean-field theory of the restricted Boltzmann machine.
abstract: Learning in restricted Boltzmann machine is typically hard due to the computation of gradients of log-likelihood function. To describe the network state statistics of the restricted Boltzmann machine, we develop an advanced mean-field theory based on the Bethe approximation. Our theory provides an efficient message-passing-based method that evaluates not only the partition function (free energy) but also its gradients without requiring statistical sampling. The results are compared with those obtained by the computationally expensive sampling-based method.
authors.affiliation: RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Wako-shi, Saitama 351-0198, Japan.
authors.forename: Haiping
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.affiliation: RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Wako-shi, Saitama 351-0198, Japan.
authors.forename: Taro
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Toyoizumi
mesh_terms: D016013:Likelihood Functions; D000069550:Machine Learning; D008962:Models, Theoretical