More about RBMs

  1. Useful when we model continuous data (i.e., we wish \( \mathbf{x} \) to be continuous)
  2. Requires a smaller learning rate, since there's no upper bound to the value a component might take in the reconstruction
Other types of units include:
  1. Softmax and multinomial units
  2. Gaussian visible and hidden units
  3. Binomial units
  4. Rectified linear units