RBM toolbox is a Torch7 toolbox for online training of RBM's. A MATLAB version exists at LINK.

The following is supported:

• Support for training RBM's with class labels including:
  • Generative training objective [2,7]
  • Discriminative training objective [2,7]
  • Hybrid training objective [2,7]
  • Semi-supervised learning [2,7] untested
• CD - k (contrastive divergence k) [5]
• PCD (persistent contrastive divergence) [6]
• RBM Classification support [2,7]
• Regularization: L1, L2, sparsity, early-stopping, dropout [1], momentum [3]

1. Install torch7: Follow these instructions
2. download this repository: git clone https://github.com/skaae/rbm_toolbox_lua.git
3. To run the examples install wget with homebrew
4. Run example rbms with examples/runrbm.lua

Run from /example folder

1. th runrbm.lua -eta 0.05 -alpha 0 -nhidden 500 -folder test_discriminative

2. th runrbm.lua -eta 0.05 -alpha 0 -nhidden 500 -folder test_discriminative_dropout -dropout 0.5

3. th runrb,.lua -eta 0.05 -alpha 1 -nhidden 500 -folder test_generative_pcd -traintype PCD

4. th runrbm.lua -eta 0.05 -alpha 0.01 -nhidden 1500 -folder test_hybrid

5. th runrbm.lua -eta 0.05 -alpha 0.01 -nhidden 1500 -folder test_hybrid_dropout -dropout 0.5

6. th runrbm.lua -eta 0.05 -alpha 0.01 -nhidden 3000 -folder test_hybrid_sparsity -sparsity 0.0001

7. th runrbm.lua -eta 0.05 -alpha 0.01 -nhidden 3000 -folder test_hybrid_sparsity_dropout -sparsity 0.0001 -dropout 0.5

8. th runrbm.lua -eta 0.05 -alpha 1 -nhidden 1000 -folder test_generative

9. th runrbm.lua -eta 0.05 -alpha 1 -nhidden 2000 -folder test_generative -dropout -0.5

You can create our own datasets with the functions in code/dataset-from-tensor.lua

codeFolder = '../code/'
require('torch')
require(codeFolder..'rbm')
require(codeFolder..'dataset-from-tensor')
require 'paths'
geometry = {1,100}   -- dimensions of your training data
nclasses = 3
nSamples = 5 
trainTensor = torch.rand(nSamples,geometry[1],geometry[2])
trainLabels = torch.Tensor({1,2,3,1,2})
classes = {'ClassA','ClassB','ClassC'}
trainData = datatensor.createDataset(trainTensor,
                                     oneOfK(nclasses,trainLabels),
                                     classes,
                                     geometry)
print(trainData:next())
print(trainData[2])
print(trainData:classnames())

1. DO DROPOUT DISCRIMINATIVE WITH SPARSITY?
2. Use momentum to smooth gradients? + Decrease learning rate
3. Generative training example + samples drawn from model
4. Hybrid training exampe
5. Semisupervised example
6. Implement stacking of RBM's

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[9] Y. Tang and I. Sutskever, “Data normalization in the learning of restricted Boltzmann machines,” Dep. Comput. Sci. Toronto Univ., vol. UTML-TR-11, 2011.
[10] L. Wan, M. Zeiler, S. Zhang, Y. Le Cun, and R. Fergus, “Regularization of Neural Networks using DropConnect,” in Proceedings of The 30th International Conference on Machine Learning, 2013, pp. 1058–1066.

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