Deep Learning Algorithms What is Deep Learning?

Deep learning algorithms run data through several "layers" of neural network algorithms, each of which passes a simplified representation of the data to the next layer. Most machine learning algorithms work well on datasets that have up to a few hundred features, or columns. However, an unstructured dataset, like one from an image, has such a large number of features that this process becomes cumbersome or completely unfeasible. A single 800-by-1000-pixel image in RGB color has 2.4 million features – far too many for traditional machine learning algorithms to handle. Deep learning algorithms learn progressively more about the image as it goes through each neural network layer.