Contrastive Divergence

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A clever algorithm developed by Hinton that approximates learning for Boltzmann Machines by running Markov chains for only one step, significantly improving efficiency over running to infinity.

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Foundations of Unsupervised Deep Learning (Ruslan Salakhutdinov, CMU)

Foundations of Unsupervised Deep Learning (Ruslan Salakhutdinov, CMU)

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A clever algorithm developed by Hinton that approximates learning for Boltzmann Machines by running Markov chains for only one step, significantly improving efficiency over running to infinity.