Philly ETE 2015 #26 – Soumith Chintala – The Deep Learning Revolution: Rethinking Machine Learning Pipelines
In the last decade, a class of machine learning algorithms popularly know as “deep learning” have produced state-of-the-art results on a wide variety of domains, including image recognition, speech recognition, natural language processing, genome sequencing, and financial data among others. What is deep learning? Why has it become so popular so quickly? How can one fit deep learning into existing pipelines?