arXiv Machine Learning August 18, 2026 By Mutsumi Kobayashi, Hiroshi Watanabe

Encoding of musical structures in hidden units of restricted Boltzmann machines

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arXiv:2509. 04899v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Restricted Boltzmann machines (RBMs) are energy-based models originating from statistical physics, in which hidden units mediate the probability distribution of high-dimensional visible configurations.

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