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Deep Belief Networks Model Social Systems Under Critical Conditions

Researchers have explored the generative capabilities of Boltzmann machines, specifically deep belief networks (DBNs), in modeling social systems governed by majority rule under critical conditions. The study utilized DBNs with non-binary units in their first layer and employed a "dreaming" process where fixed visible units conditioned the network to generate samples. This method allowed for the measurement of deviations from the original system and confirmed that the reconstructed samples maintained a critical state, even when subjected to input noise. AI

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Deep Belief Networks Model Social Systems Under Critical Conditions

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Mauricio A. Valle, Gonzalo A. Ruz ·

    Exploration of the generative capabilities of Boltzmann machines applied to social systems under the majority rule

    arXiv:2607.23349v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study the generative capabilities of Boltzmann machines to recover systems governed by the majority rule under critical conditions. To this end, we train deep belief networks (DBNs) with different configurations, where the first …