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Deep Learning

A subset of machine learning that uses large, multi-layered neural networks to automatically learn complex patterns from data, rather than relying on hand-designed features.

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“Deep” network terminology developed across the neural-network research community; the phrase came into general use through the 2000s rather than from one paper.

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