Restricted Boltzmann machine for Face Recognition

Closed weights University of Toronto,University College London (UCL) April 2001

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The weights for this model have not been published, so it cannot be downloaded or run on your own hardware at any size. It is reachable only through its provider, and no graphics card changes that.

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Origin

Who built this model, where, and when it was published.

Organisation
University of Toronto,University College London (UCL)
Organisation type
Academia,Academia
Country
Canada, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Published
1 April 2001
Authors
Yee Whye Teh, Geoffrey E. Hinton

What it does

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Domain
Vision
Task
Face recognition

Size

How large the model is and how much data it was trained on. Parameters are the figure that decides whether it fits on a given graphics card.

Training data
tokens

"Our version of the FERET database contained 1002 frontal face images of 429 individuals taken over a period of a few years under varying lighting conditions. Of these images, 818 are used as both the gallery and the training set"

How it is classified

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Record confidence
Confident

Sources

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Reference
Rate-coded Restricted Boltzmann Machines for Face Recognition
Last updated
28 November 2025

What the numbers mean

About this model

Restricted Boltzmann machine for Face Recognition was published by University of Toronto,University College London (UCL), in the country recorded as Canada, during April 2001. It comes out of an organisation categorised as academia,Academia.

It works in the domain of Vision, and is recorded as performing the task of face recognition.

This is a closed model: the trained values stayed with whoever produced them, and there is no local version to run.

Answers

Restricted Boltzmann machine for Face Recognition — common questions

01

Restricted Boltzmann machine for Face Recognition— who created it?

It was published by University of Toronto,University College London (UCL), based in Canada, an organisation categorised as academia,Academia.

02

Restricted Boltzmann machine for Face Recognition— when was it released?

It was published in April 2001. Capability per parameter has improved considerably since, so a newer model of the same size is often the better use of the same hardware.

03

Restricted Boltzmann machine for Face Recognition— what is it used for?

It works in the domain of Vision, and is recorded as handling the task of face recognition. These are the areas it was designed around; they describe intent rather than a hard boundary.

04

Restricted Boltzmann machine for Face Recognition— what GPU do I need to run it?

None. This is a closed model — its weights were never published, so it cannot be downloaded or run on your own hardware at any price. It is reachable only through its provider.

05

Restricted Boltzmann machine for Face Recognition— is it open source?

The licensing was never recorded in our source data. We treat unstated licensing as closed, because an unrecorded licence is not one to rely on.

06

Restricted Boltzmann machine for Face Recognition— how many parameters does it have?

No parameter count has been published for it, which is why no memory or speed figure appears on this page.

Source

Original publication

Record last updated 28 November 2025

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