What is Deep Learning?

Odutolu Timothy December 28, 2021 Machine Learning Leave a comment 257 Views

Deep Learning is a discipline of artificial intelligence, and more precisely a branch of Machine Learning. It is about letting machines learn from their experiences, just like humans do.

Deep learning is about letting machines learn from their experiences, just like humans do

What’s the difference between machine learning and deep learning?

The difference with Machine Learning is that Deep Learning algorithms don’t really have a limit in terms of learning ability. The more data they receive to train on, the more these systems improve their performance.

The artificial neural networks on which deep learning is based learn by discovering structures in the data provided to them. These networks develop computational models composed of multiple processing layers, in order to create multiple levels of abstraction to represent the data.

A convolutional neural network type, deep learning model can be trained on millions of images of cats, for example. It will then learn to recognize the pixels representing a cat, in order to classify them as such.

With a conventional machine learning system, a human expert would have to spend a considerable amount of time setting up the system to enable it to detect the characteristics of the cat.

In the case of Deep Learning, it suffices to provide it with a large quantity of images.

The performance of deep learning algorithms surpass that of machine learning systems in a large number of tasks including computer vision, speech recognition and robotics. However, it is necessary to configure the “hyperparameters” for the model to be effective.