Special Issue Editors: F. Bach and T. Poggio

Abstract from Introduction:

"Faced with large amounts of data, the aim of machine learning is to make predictions. It applies to many types of data, such as images, sounds, biological data, etc. A key difficulty is to find relevant vectorial representations. While this problem had been often handled in a ad-hoc way by domain experts, it has recently proved useful to learn these representations directly from large quantities of data, and Deep Learning Convolutional Networks (DLCN) with ReLU nonlinearities have been particularly successful. The representations are then based on compositions of simple parameterized processing units, the depth coming from the large number of such compositions.

The goal of this special issue was to explore some of the mathematical ideas and problems at the heart of deep learning. In particular, two …"

CBMM Researchers - Dr. Fabio Anselmi, Prof. Poggio and Dr. Lorenzo Rosasco have contributed an article entitled "On invariance and selectivity in representation learning" to this issue. URL: http://imaiai.oxfordjournals.org/lookup/doi/10.1093/imaiai/iaw009