Mixed-variate restricted boltzmann machines

Modern datasets are becoming heterogeneous. To this end, we present in this paper Mixed- Variate Restricted Boltzmann Machines for simultaneously modelling variables of multiple types and modalities, including binary and continuous responses, categorical options, multicategorical choices, ordinal as...

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Main Authors: Tran, The Truyen, Phung, D., Venkatesh, S.
Format: Conference Paper
Published: 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/7707
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Phung, D.
Venkatesh, S.
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Phung, D.
Venkatesh, S.
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description Modern datasets are becoming heterogeneous. To this end, we present in this paper Mixed- Variate Restricted Boltzmann Machines for simultaneously modelling variables of multiple types and modalities, including binary and continuous responses, categorical options, multicategorical choices, ordinal assessment and category-ranked preferences. Dependency among variables is modeled using latent binary variables, each of which can be interpreted as a particular hidden aspect of the data. The proposed model, similar to the standard RBMs, allows fast evaluation of the posterior for the latent variables. Hence, it is naturally suitable for many common tasks including, but not limited to, (a) as a pre-processing step to convert complex input data into a more convenient vectorial representation through the latent posteriors, thereby offering a dimensionality reduction capacity, (b) as a classifier supporting binary, multiclass, multilabel, and label-ranking outputs, or a regression tool for continuous outputs and (c) as a data completion tool for multimodal and heterogeneous data. We evaluate the proposed model on a large-scale dataset using the world opinion survey results on three tasks: feature extraction and visualization, data completion and prediction. © 2011 T. Tran, D. Phung & S. Venkatesh.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-77072017-01-30T11:01:55Z Mixed-variate restricted boltzmann machines Tran, The Truyen Phung, D. Venkatesh, S. Modern datasets are becoming heterogeneous. To this end, we present in this paper Mixed- Variate Restricted Boltzmann Machines for simultaneously modelling variables of multiple types and modalities, including binary and continuous responses, categorical options, multicategorical choices, ordinal assessment and category-ranked preferences. Dependency among variables is modeled using latent binary variables, each of which can be interpreted as a particular hidden aspect of the data. The proposed model, similar to the standard RBMs, allows fast evaluation of the posterior for the latent variables. Hence, it is naturally suitable for many common tasks including, but not limited to, (a) as a pre-processing step to convert complex input data into a more convenient vectorial representation through the latent posteriors, thereby offering a dimensionality reduction capacity, (b) as a classifier supporting binary, multiclass, multilabel, and label-ranking outputs, or a regression tool for continuous outputs and (c) as a data completion tool for multimodal and heterogeneous data. We evaluate the proposed model on a large-scale dataset using the world opinion survey results on three tasks: feature extraction and visualization, data completion and prediction. © 2011 T. Tran, D. Phung & S. Venkatesh. 2011 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/7707 fulltext
spellingShingle Tran, The Truyen
Phung, D.
Venkatesh, S.
Mixed-variate restricted boltzmann machines
title Mixed-variate restricted boltzmann machines
title_full Mixed-variate restricted boltzmann machines
title_fullStr Mixed-variate restricted boltzmann machines
title_full_unstemmed Mixed-variate restricted boltzmann machines
title_short Mixed-variate restricted boltzmann machines
title_sort mixed-variate restricted boltzmann machines
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/7707