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Deep Learning

A modern machine learning approach that learns hierarchical representations from data using multi-layer neural networks.

Deep learning is a powerful machine learning approach built on multi-layer neural networks and capable of learning representations directly from data. It is behind many of the most impressive advances in image processing, speech recognition, natural language processing, and large language models. One of its key strengths is that it can learn many of the features that once had to be manually engineered in classical approaches. That said, this power comes at a cost: it often requires more data, more computation, and more careful model engineering. Still, for anyone trying to understand the modern AI ecosystem, deep learning is no longer a side topic; it is one of the central pillars.