'Deep Learning' picking up fast in India: Experts

Hyderabad: As scientific disciplines go, the field of'Deep Learning' is but an infant. However, it will soon have a disruptive effect on the field of drug design, experts say. They were speaking at a panel discussion as part of the ongoing international conference on high performance computing in Hyderabad on Wednesday. Deep learning, a subset of machine learning, functions by imitating the workings of the human brain to process large amounts of data. The artificial neural networks used in these functions have neuron nodes connected together like a web.