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Types of Machine Learning

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Data can be - Symbolic or Categorical (e.g. High Temperature)

- Numerical (e.g. 45 0C)

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From the available data we can - Model the system which has generated the data - Find interesting patterns in the data

We will be primarily concerned with rule based modelling of the system from which the data was generated

The search for interesting patterns is considered to be the domain of Data Mining

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Supervised learning, where we get a set of training inputs and outputs. The correct output for the training samples is available

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Supervised Learning

Plot of a training data set of N = 10 points, shown as blue circles, each comprising an observation of the input variable x along with the corresponding target variable t

The green curve shows the function sin(2x) used to generate the data. Our goal is to predict the value of t for some new value of x, without knowledge of the green curve.

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Unsupervised learning, where we are interested in capturing inherent organization in the data. No specific output values are supplied with the learning patterns
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Reinforcement learning, where there are no exact outputs supplied, but there is a reward (reinforcement) for desirable behaviour

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