DBN — Deep Belief Network

Fact

A generative model made by stacking several RBMs in layers.

In Plain Words

A DBN is like a school lunch line for data. Each station adds a clue, until the last one can guess the whole meal.

It was a big early spark for Deep Learning. People used it to learn features and make new examples.

Related Concepts

• Restricted Boltzmann Machine
• Deep Learning
• Generative Model
• Unsupervised Learning

RBM
A DBN often stacks several RBMs in layers.

Deep Learning
DBN layer-by-layer pretraining helped revive Deep Learning.

Generative Model
A DBN can learn data patterns and make new samples.

Unsupervised Learning
Early DBNs often used Unsupervised Learning to pretrain each layer.