Is Deep Learning Statistical Learning? (Jay McClelland) - Donostia 2019 Statistical Learning

Over 25 years ago, behavioral investigations of statistical learning in humans (from infancy to adulthood) and computational modeling work using simple recurrent networks introduced a revolution in thinking about the role that learning and sensitivity to statistical structure might play in shaping structured knowledge even in domains such as language, where a role for statistics had often been denied. More recently, deep learning architectures have achieved remarkable success in a range of complex cognitive