Boltzmann Machines and Artificial Intelligence
David G. Bounds · Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) · 1985
Ackley, Hinton and Sejnowski have recently proposed an algorithm, named a Boltzmann Machine, which is capable of learning to recognize the underlying structure in a set of patterns presented to it. The main purposes of this memorandum are: to introduce Boltzmann Machines to those who are not familiar with them; to outline how Boltzmann Machines may prove useful in the knowledge acquisition problem in artificial intelligence; to report some new results for a model problem; and to sketch out the relationship between Boltzmann Machines and the spin-glass problem.