Questions tagged [supervised-learning]
For questions related to supervised learning.
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What is self-supervised learning in machine learning?
What is self-supervised learning in machine learning? How is it different from supervised learning?
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Can supervised learning be recast as reinforcement learning problem?
Let's assume that there is a sequence of pairs $(x_i, y_i), (x_{i+1}, y_{i+1}), \dots$ of observations and corresponding labels. Let's also assume that the $x$ is considered as independent variable ...
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What are the different approaches used in Machine Learning?
There seem to be so many sub-fields, so I'm interested in getting a better understanding of the approaches.
I'm looking for information on a single framework per answer, in order to allow for ...
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How can supervised learning be viewed as a conditional probability of the labels given the inputs?
In the literature and textbooks, one often sees supervised learning expressed as a conditional probability, e.g.,
$$\rho(\vec{y}|\vec{x},\vec{\theta})$$
where $\vec{\theta}$ denotes a learned set of ...
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How to generate labels for self-supervised training?
I've been reading a lot lately about self-supervised learning and I didn't understand very well how to generate the desired label for a given image.
Let's say that I have an image classification task, ...
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What is the meaning of “exploration” in reinforcement and supervised learning?
While exploration is an integral part of reinforcement learning (RL), it does not pertain to supervised learning (SL) since the latter is already provided with the data set from the start.
That said, ...
