Title: Riemann-Theta Boltzmann Machine,
Abstract: A general Boltzmann machine with continuous visible and discrete integer
valued hidden states is introduced. Under mild assumptions about the connection
matrices, the probability density function of the visible units can be solved
for analytically, yielding a novel parametric density function involving a
ratio of Riemann-Theta functions. The conditional expectation of a hidden state
for given visible states can also be calculated analytically, yielding a
derivative of the logarithmic Riemann-Theta function. The conditional
expectation can be used as activation function in a feedforward neural network,
thereby increasing the modelling capacity of the network. Both the Boltzmann
machine and the derived feedforward neural network can be successfully trained
via standard gradient- and non-gradient-based optimization techniques.