Varieties of Helmholtz Machine

A Coupled Helmholtz Machine for PCA

In this letter we present a coupled Helmholtz machine for principal component analysis (PCA), where sub-machines are related through sharing some latent variables and associated weights. Then, we present a wake-sleep PCA algorithm for training the coupled Helmholtz machine, showing that the algorithm iteratively determines principal eigenvectors of a data covariance matrix without any rotationa...

Improved representations and hardware implementation of the Helmholtz Machine

Probabilistic computing forms a relatively new computational style, of significant practical interest because stochastic behaviour is common and must be taken into accountin in biological and other real-world processes. We examine a particular stochastic ANN architecture, the Helmholtz Machine, investigating its characteristics, with particular respect to its wake-sleep training algorithm, and ...

Helmholtz Machines and Wake-Sleep Learning

Using Stochastic Helmholtz Machine for Text Learning

We present an approach for text analysis, especially for topic words extraction and document classification, based on a probabilistic generative model. Generative models are useful since they can extract the underlying causal structure of data objects. For this model, a stochastic Helmholtz machine is used and it is fitted using the wake-sleep algorithm, a simple stochastic learning algorithm. ...

Pulse-stream binary stochastic hardware for neural computation : the Helmholtz Machine

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