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- What is the energy function of an RBM?
- What are the visible and hidden layers of an RBM?
- What is the probability distribution of an RBM?
- What are the conditional distributions of each layer given the other?
- What loss do we try to optimize to train an RBM?
- What is the Contrastive Divergence (CD) and how does it approximate the gradients used for training?
- What is a Gaussian-Bernoulli RBM?
- What is the free-energy of an RBM?
- What is a Boltzmann machine (i.e. non-restricted)?
- How de we perform Gibbs sampling in an RBM?
- What is a negative sample?
- What is pesistent CD?