Machines de boltzmann. Theorie et applications.

Summary This paper presents the boltzmann machines in three main parts. First, the formalism and the algorithmic of these machines are detailed from a theoretical point of view. Emphasis will be put on parallel and asymmetric architectures. An application of this type of network is presented in a second time. It is an edge detector on gray level photographs. The last part describes a software implementation of asymmetric synchronous boltzmann machines. We propose a simulator and an interpreter with a user manual. This last part is designed in a didactic way since each step is illustrated by computer examples.