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

In the future, other techniques like deep learning could uncover more, but would require a lot more training data. —Celia Ford, Vox, 10 June 2024

Finally, Asus has AI Noise Cancellation and AI Voiceprint that uses a deep learning database to enhance voice quality in virtual meetings and videos. —Brian Westover, PCMAG, 4 June 2024

Applying machine learning to smells Machine learning, and particularly a kind of machine learning called deep learning, is at the core of remarkable advances such as voice assistants and facial recognition apps. —Ambuj Tewari, The Conversation, 30 May 2024

Of the top 15 institutions publishing deep learning research, 13 are American universities or corporate labs. —Paul Scharre, Foreign Affairs, 4 Apr. 2023

Unlike the work from the late 1990s, which used static data and never improved, deep learning adapts and gets better. —Brooke Borel, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2018

Their model, based on a type of deep learning called graph neural networks, established state-of-the-art results in machine olfaction. —Ambuj Tewari, The Conversation, 30 May 2024

The company uses digital watermarks and deep learning to authenticate digital media. —Laura Bratton, Quartz, 8 May 2024

Several years ago, academic research groups began testing whether deep learning, the technique at the heart of many recent AI advances, could predict the shape of proteins simply from their constituent amino acids, by learning from structures that had been experimentally verified. —Will Knight, WIRED, 8 May 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1986, in the meaning defined above