With the observations of an unprecedented number of oscillating subgiant
stars expected from NASA's TESS mission, the asteroseismic
characterization of subgiant stars will be a vital task for stellar
population studies and for testing our theories of stellar evolution. To
determine the fundamental properties of a large sample of subgiant stars
efficiently, we developed a deep learning method that estimates
distributions of fundamental parameters like age and mass over a wide
range of input physics by learning from a grid of stellar models varied
in eight physical parameters. We applied our method to four Kepler
subgiant stars and compare our results with previously determined
estimates. Our results show good agreement with previous estimates for
three of them (KIC 11026764, KIC 10920273, KIC 11395018). With the
ability to explore a vast range of stellar parameters, we determine that
the remaining star, KIC 10005473, is likely to have an age 1 Gyr younger
than its previously determined estimate. Our method also estimates the
efficiency of overshooting, undershooting, and microscopic diffusion
processes, from which we determined that the parameters governing such
processes are generally poorly constrained in subgiant models. We
further demonstrate our method's utility for ensemble asteroseismology
by characterizing a sample of 30 Kepler subgiant stars, where we find a
majority of our age, mass, and radius estimates agree within
uncertainties from more computationally expensive grid-based modelling
techniques.