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Learning Scenarios( Supervised learning, Unsupervised

learning, Semi- Supervised learning, Transductive inference,


On-line learning, Reinforcement learning, Active learning),
Generalization
Supervised Learning, Unsupervised Learning, Reinforcement
learning )

Learning is a search through the space of possible hypotheses for


one that will perform well, even on new examples beyond the
training set. To measure the accuracy of a hypothesis we give it a
test set of examples that are distinct from the training set.
Learning Scenarios
Learning Problems Statistical Inference
7. Inductive Learning
1. Supervised Learning
8. Deductive Inference
2. Unsupervised Learning 9. Transductive Learning
3. Reinforcement Learning Learning Techniques
Hybrid Learning Problems 10. Multi-Task Learning
4. Semi-Supervised Learning 11. Active Learning
5. Self-Supervised Learning 12. Online Learning
13. Transfer Learning
6. Multi-Instance Learning
14. Ensemble Learning
1. Supervised Learning
• “Applications in which the training data comprises examples of the input
vectors along with their corresponding target vectors are known as
supervised learning problems.”
• Supervised Learning is the process of making an algorithm to learn to map
an input to a particular output. This is achieved using the labelled datasets
that you have collected. If the mapping is correct, the algorithm has
successfully learned. Else, you make the necessary changes to the
algorithm so that it can learn correctly. Supervised Learning algorithms
can help make predictions for new unseen data that we obtain later in the
future. 
• Types of Supervised Learning
• Supervised Learning has been broadly classified into 2 types.
• Regression
• Classification
• Regression is the kind of Supervised Learning that learns from the
Labelled Datasets and is then able to predict a continuous-valued
output for the new data given to the algorithm. It is used whenever
the output required is a number such as money or height etc. 
• Classification, on the other hand, is the kind of learning where the
algorithm needs to map the new data that is obtained to any one
of the 2 classes that we have in our dataset. The classes need to be
mapped to either 1 or 0 which in real-life translated to ‘Yes’ or ‘No’,
‘Rains’ or ‘Does Not Rain’ and so forth. The output will be either
one of the classes and not a number as it was in Regression. 

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