By establishing a connection between bi-directional Helmholtz machines and information theory, we propose a generalized Helmholtz machine. Theoretical and experimental results show that given \textit{shallow} architectures, the generalized model outperforms the previous ones substantially.

翻译：通过在双向Helmholtz机器与信息理论之间建立连接,我们提出了通用的Helmholtz机器。理论和实验结果表明,根据\ textit{shallow}结构,通用模型大大优于前一种模型。