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Deep belief networks are exact

Gleb Smirnov

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Source: arXiv

Published: Sep 4, 2026

arXiv: 2609.05572

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We prove that every strictly positive probability distribution on {1,1}n\{-1,1\}^n is represented exactly by a sigmoid belief network with finite parameters. This answers a question of Sutskever and Hinton. The proof upgrades their probability-sharing approximation to exact representation using Brouwer's fixed-point theorem.

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