The current landscape of deep learning. Trends and Challenges

Abstract:

Recent years have seen rapid growth of the field of Deep Learning. Research in Deep Learning has put forth many new ideas which have led to many path breaking developments in Machine Learning. The large set of tools and techniques that have been churned out of this research are fast being explored and applied to different problems in Computer Vision and NLP. This talk shall focus on some of the current trends and practices in Deep Learning research and the challenges that lie ahead.