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Deep Learning

Fundamentals

Learning with deep neural networks containing many parameters.


Deep Learning uses multiple layers of nonlinear transformations to capture complex patterns in text, images, audio, or multimodal data.

  • Strengths: High performance with large datasets, automatic feature extraction.
  • Weaknesses: Data- and compute-intensive, hard to interpret, potentially vulnerable.
  • Common architectures: CNNs, RNNs/LSTMs, Transformers.
  • Practice: Transfer learning and fine-tuning reduce cost and data requirements.