Simulated Annealing and the Boltzmann Machine

The particular ANN paradigm, for which simulated annealing is used for finding the weights, is known as a Boltzmann neural network, also known as the Boltzmann machine (BM). The BM, proposed by (Ackley et al., 1985), is a variant of the Hopfield net with a probabilistic, rather than deterministic, weight update rule. ................
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