Pattern recognition in Deep Boltzmann machines

Abstract

We consider a multi-layer Sherrington-Kirkpatrick spin-glass as a model for deep restricted Boltzmann machines and we solve for its quenched free energy, in the thermodynamic limit and allowing for a first step of replica symmetry breaking. This result is accomplished rigorously exploiting interpolating techniques and recovering the expression already known for the replica-symmetry case. Further, we drop the restriction constraint by introducing intra-layer connections among spins and we show that the resulting system can be mapped into a modular Hopfield network, which is also addressed rigorously via interpolating techniques up to the first step of replica symmetry breaking.