An RBM with real-valued visible units
Using Gaussian visible
units we can get much
sharper predictions and
alternating Gibbs
sampling is still easy,
though learning is
slower.
energy-gradient
produced by the total
input to a visible unit
parabolic
containment
function
Welling et. al. (2005) show how to extend RBM’s to the
exponential family. See also Bengio et. al. 2007)