Xavier Amatriain's answer to What's trending in machine learning (outside of deep learning)? - Quora

It is hard to answer this question without a proper definition of what "trending" means. Also "deep learning" is being used as a very broad category that even includes methods that are not per se "deep". For example, Adversarial Methods[1] are not necessarily connected to Deep Learning despite the fact that they have been popularized in that context. In any case, I will try to answer the question by looking at recent conferences (e.g.