deep learning

noun

computing

: a form of machine learning in which the computer network rapidly teaches itself to understand a concept without human intervention by performing a large number of iterative calculations on an extremely large dataset

Deep learning involves feeding machines lots of data so the AI can learn patterns itself without requiring humans to program knowledge into the machine.

—Mike Cherney

In deep learning, multiple neural networks are "stacked" on top of each other, or layered, in order to create models that are even better at prediction because each new layer learns from the ones before it.

—Derrick Harris

—sometimes used before another noun

The purpose of many deep learning systems is to minimize the amount of time spent feeding or quizzing a piece of software …

—Erik Sofge

Examples of deep learning in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The footage was then used to train a deep learning algorithm, that learned which visual characteristics corresponded to which drug vials and which syringe labels. —New Atlas, 22 Oct. 2024

Now deep learning has begun to pay its due back to physics by enabling accurate and fast simulations of systems ranging from molecules and materials all the way to the entire Earth’s climate. —Ambuj Tewari, Discover Magazine, 11 Oct. 2024

No doubt Sutton has highlighted an important factor—the declining cost of computation—in the recent triumph of artificial neural networks (or deep learning or computational statistics). —Gil Press, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024

Fourteen years ago, for example, Nvidia first saw deep learning show up as a workload that needed to be accelerated by its GPUs. —Michael J. Miller, PCMAG, 23 Oct. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1986, in the meaning defined above