aka Feature Learning
Data Representation
effective way to encode information underlying data
in humans the information processing is hierarchical.
Acquisition Methodology
- Hand-Crafted feature engineering
 - Representation learned from data
 
Motivation
Curse of Dimensionality Latent Factor in Manifolds
Supervised Representation Learning
mapping from input to targets use deep Neural Networks
Unsupervised Representation Learning
- Dimension Reduction
 - Manifold learning
 - density estimation/recovering distribution using Generative Models
 - Disentangling underlying factors of variation via hybrid learning