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, a convolutional deep belief network (CDBN) is a type of

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composed of multiple layers of convolutional

restricted Boltzmann machine A restricted Boltzmann machine (RBM) is a generative stochastic artificial neural network that can learn a probability distribution over its set of inputs. RBMs were initially invented under the name Harmonium by Paul Smolensky in 1986, and rose ...

s stacked together. Alternatively, it is a hierarchical

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for deep learning, which is highly effective in image processing and

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, though it has been used in other domains too. The salient features of the model include the fact that it scales well to high-dimensional images and is translation-invariant.{{cite web, last=Coviello, first=Emanuele, title=Convolutional Deep Belief Networks, url=http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~dasgupta/254-deep/emanuele.pdf CDBNs use the technique of probabilistic max-pooling to reduce the dimensions in higher layers in the network. Training of the network involves a pre-training stage accomplished in a greedy layer-wise manner, similar to other

deep belief network In machine learning, a deep belief network (DBN) is a generative graphical model, or alternatively a class of deep neural network, composed of multiple layers of latent variables ("hidden units"), with connections between the layers but not bet ...

s. Depending on whether the network is to be used for discrimination or generative tasks, it is then "fine tuned" or trained with either

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or the up–down algorithm (contrastive–divergence), respectively.

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