Enabling the Deep Learning Revolution - KDnuggets

Deep Learning (DL) models are revolutionizing the business and technology world with jaw-dropping performances in one application area after another -- image classification, object detection, object tracking, pose recognition, video analytics, synthetic picture generation -- just to name a few. However, they are like anything but classical Machine Learning (ML) algorithms/techniques. DL models use millions of parameters and create extremely complex and highly nonlinear internal representations of the images or datasets that are fed to these models. Whereas for the classical ML, domain experts and data scientists often have to write hand-crafted algorithms to extract and represent high-dimensional features from the raw data, deep learning models, on the other hand, automatically extracts and work on these complex features. A lot of theory and mathematical machines behind the classical ML (regression, support vector machines, etc.) were developed with linear models in mind. However, practical real-life problems are often nonlinear in nature and therefore cannot be effectively solved using those ML methods.