“…Since 2006, deep networks have been applied with success not only in classification tasks Larochelle, Erhan, Courville, Bergstra, & Bengio, 2007;Ranzato, Boureau, & LeCun, 2008;Vincent, Larochelle, Bengio, & Manzagol, 2008;Ahmed, Yu, Xu, Gong, & Xing, 2008;Lee, Grosse, Ranganath, & Ng, 2009), but also in regression (Salakhutdinov & Hinton, 2008), dimensionality reduction (Hinton & Salakhutdinov, 2006a;Salakhutdinov & Hinton, 2007a), modeling textures (Osindero & Hinton, 2008), modeling motion (Taylor, Hinton, & Roweis, 2007;Taylor & Hinton, 2009), object segmentation (Levner, 2008), information retrieval (Salakhutdinov & Hinton, 2007b;Ranzato & Szummer, 2008;Torralba, Fergus, & Weiss, 2008), robotics (Hadsell, Erkan, Sermanet, Scoffier, Muller, & LeCun, 2008), natural language processing Weston et al, 2008;Mnih & Hinton, 2009), and collaborative filtering (Salakhutdinov, Mnih, & Hinton, 2007). Although auto-encoders, RBMs and DBNs can be trained with unlabeled data, in many of the above applications, they have been successfully used to initialize deep supervised feedforward neural networks applied to a specific task.…”