Fundamentals of Deep Learning

Benjamin Akera

Ordre de Jour

• Introduction
• History
• Modern Deep Nets
• Techniques and tricks
• Applications

What is Deep Learning? 

• Deep Learning is a class of machine learning methods that aims at learning feature hierarchies

 

• Each layer of the hierarchy makes the problem easier for further layers

 

• Deep Learning is not a solution, but a useful tool in our quest for AI