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What is the difference between a Neural Network, a Deep Learning System and a Deep Belief Network?

What is the difference between a Neural Network, a Deep Learning System and a Deep Belief Network? As I recall your basic neural network is a 3 layers kinda thing, and I have had Deep Belief Systems described as being neural networks stacked on top…
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practical use of a Boltzmann machine

I am reading "Neural Networks and Learning Machines" and in Chapter 11 the book covers Boltzman machines and it is stated "the network [Boltzmann machine] can perform pattern completion", but does not show how this would be done in practice, or how…
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Why are restricted Boltzman machines not considered useful?

I've been under the impression that RBM can be used for a variety of applications and a cursory search on google seems to confirm this. But I've heard from multiple people (including a peer reviewer) that they're not considered to be "good,"…
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Restricted Boltzmann machine confusing details

Hi I'm new to RBM and machine learning/computer vision in general, and I'm using the code from: http://blog.echen.me/2011/07/18/introduction-to-restricted-boltzmann-machines/ while reading on…
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Where to start studying about HTM?

I am looking for references (pedagogic and beginner friendly!) to these two topics, hierarchical temporal memory algorithms applied to deep planning problems (multi-layer) neural networks trained via SGD (after some bottom-up pre-learning using…
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Question of about Boltzmann machine implementation

I would like to implement Boltzmann machine with two hidden and two visible units. The four possible hidden units configuration are $(0,0), (0,1), (1,0), (1,1)$, and their probability distribution is $20\%, 35\%, 35\%, 10\%$, respectively. I would…
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