arxivcs.LGcond-mat.dis-nn2026-07-11
Learning from Noise: Effective-Rank Collapse and Out-of-Distribution Rejection in Restricted Boltzmann Machines
Oshada Rathnayake, Nikhil Shukla
Restricted Boltzmann machines (RBMs) represent data by shaping an energy landscape over visible and hidden configurations, but their discriminative use is fragile under out-of-distribution (OOD) inputs: samples outside the training distribution can be absorbed into one of the lea…