  The machine learning of lattice operators has three possible bottlenecks.
From a statistical standpoint, it is necessary to design a constrained class of
operators based on prior information with low bias, and low complexity relative
to the sample size. From a computational perspective, there should be an
efficient algorithm to minimize an empirical error over the class. From an
understanding point of view, the properties of the learned operator need to be
derived, so its behavior can be theoretically understood. The statistical
bottleneck can be overcome due to the rich literature about the representation
of lattice operators, but there is no general learning algorithm for them. In
this paper, we discuss a learning paradigm in which, by overparametrizing a
class via elements in a lattice, an algorithm for minimizing functions in a
lattice is applied to learn. We present the stochastic lattice descent
algorithm as a general algorithm to learn on constrained classes of operators
as long as a lattice overparametrization of it is fixed, and we discuss
previous works which are proves of concept. Moreover, if there are algorithms
to compute the basis of an operator from its overparametrization, then its
properties can be deduced and the understanding bottleneck is also overcome.
This learning paradigm has three properties that modern methods based on neural
networks lack: control, transparency and interpretability. Nowadays, there is
an increasing demand for methods with these characteristics, and we believe
that mathematical morphology is in a unique position to supply them. The
lattice overparametrization paradigm could be a missing piece for it to achieve
its full potential within modern machine learning.
