Comment by dr_dshiv

7 months ago

My understanding is that the Harmonium (Smolensky) was the first restricted Boltzmann machine, but maximized “harmony” instead of minimizing “energy.” When Smolensky, Hinton and Rummelhart collaborated, they instead called it “goodness of fit.”

The harmonium paper [1] is a really nice read. Hinton obviously became the superstar and Smolensky wrote long books about linguistics.