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### What is self-supervised learning in machine learning?

Introduction The term self-supervised learning (SSL) has been used (sometimes differently) in different contexts and fields, such as representation learning [1], neural networks, robotics [2], natural ...
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### What is self-supervised learning in machine learning?

Self-supervised learning is when you use some parts of the samples as labels for a task that requires a good degree of comprehension to be solved. I'll emphasize these two key points, before giving an ...
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### What are the different approaches used in Machine Learning?

Things in italics should give you enough googleable terms to start a deeper dive :P. There are 3 main branches of statistical ML. Supervised Learning This approach is taken when a problem can be ...
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### Can supervised learning be recast as reinforcement learning problem?

Any supervised learning (SL) problem can be cast as an equivalent reinforcement learning (RL) one. Suppose you have the training dataset $\mathcal{D} = \{ (x_i, y_i \}_{i=1}^N$, where $x_i$ is an ...
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### What is the relation between semi-supervised and self-supervised visual representation learning?

Both semi-supervised and self-supervised methods are similar in the sense that the goal is to learn with fewer labels per class. The way both formulate this is quite different: Self-Supervised ...

### What is the relation between semi-supervised and self-supervised visual representation learning?

Semi-supervised learning Semi-supervised learning is the collection of machine learning techniques where there are two datasets: a labelled one and an unlabelled one. There are two main problems that ...
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### What is "planning" in the context of reinforcement learning, and how is it different from RL and SL?

The concept of "planning" is not just related to RL. In general (as the name suggests), planning consists in creating a "plan" which you will use to reach a "goal". The ...
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### Does AlphaZero use Q-Learning?

Note: you mentioned in the comments that you are reading the old, pre-print version of the paper describing AlphaZero on arXiv. My answer will be for the "official", peer-reviewed, more recent ...
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### What is the relation between semi-supervised and self-supervised visual representation learning?

The previous answer has given a good insight into the difference between two areas. I would like to give more examples. Semi-Supervised Learning work with improving the data set by adding up new ...

### What is self-supervised learning in machine learning?

Self-supervised visual recognition is often applied to representation learning. Here we first learn features on unlabeled data (representation learning), and then learn the real model on features ...
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### Why are neural networks always trained "by themselves"?

The way children learn is in many ways supervised. It is true that certain abilities are there genetically (visual system, object recognition, to large extent voice recognition), but a lot of human ...
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### How can supervised learning be viewed as a conditional probability of the labels given the inputs?

This formulation/interpretation can indeed be confusing (or even misleading), as the output of a neural network is usually deterministic (i.e. given the same input $x$, the output is always the same, ...
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### How to generate labels for self-supervised training?

How can I generate the target label from the other data in the dataset? If you are asking how you can create the learning signal in SSL, when given an unlabelled dataset, for learning representations ...
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### What is the meaning of "exploration" in reinforcement and supervised learning?

In reinforcement learning, exploration has a specific meaning, which is in contrast with the meaning of exploitation, hence the so-called exploration-exploitation dilemma (or trade-off). You explore ...
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### What is the difference between imitation learning and classification done by experts?

Imitation learning is supervised learning applied to the RL setting. In any general RL algorithm (such as Q-learning), the learning is done on the basis of the reward function. However, consider a ...
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### How Does AlphaGo Zero Implement Reinforcement Learning?

If you learn a policy or a value function from experience (that is, interaction with an environment), that's RL. In the case of AlphaGo, the MCTS is used to acquire the experience. RL could in fact ...
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### How could decision tree learning algorithms cope with imbalanced classes?

Decision Tree learners, on their own, are not a good way to deal with imbalanced data. The most commonly used algorithms, by default, make no attempt to address this problem. If you look carefully at ...
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### How is regression machine learning?

So in a sense you are correct. Using your jargon: linear regression will only "work" if the true function is approximately $y=h(x)=\beta^{T}x+\beta_0$. Advantages to using this is that its light, its ...
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### What is the difference between reinforcement learning and AutoML?

Automated machine learning (AutoML) is an umbrella term that encompasses a collection of techniques (such as hyper-parameter optimization or automated feature engineering) to automate the design and ...
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### Is it possible to guide a reinforcement learning algorithm?

The programmer already guides the RL algorithm (or agent) by specifying the reward function. However, the reward function alone may not be sufficient to learn efficiently and fast, as you correctly ...
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### How can reinforcement learning be unsupervised learning if it uses deep learning?

Supervised learning The supervised learning (SL) problem is formulated as follows. You are given a dataset $\mathcal{D} = \{(x_i, y_i)_{i=1}^N$, which is assumed to be drawn i.i.d. from an unknown ...
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### How can reinforcement learning be unsupervised learning if it uses deep learning?

In Supervised learning, the goal is to learn a mapping from points in a feature space to labels. So that for any new input data point, we are able to predict its label. whereas in Unsupervised ...
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### How is the reward in reinforcement learning different from the label in supervised learning problems?

Reward in reinforcement learning (RL) is entirely different from a supervised learning (SL) label, but can be related to it indirectly. In a RL control setting, you can imagine that you had a data ...
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### How can we teach a neural net to make arbitrary data associations?

In a nutshell : Memorizing is not Learning So, first let's just remind the classical use of a neural net, in Supervised Learning : You have a set of $(x_{train}, y_{train}) \in X \times Y$ pairs, and ...
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### Does neuroevolution require a labelled dataset?

The GA will require a fitness function, which means you need labeled data for comparison. That conclusion is wrong. Yes, sometimes your fitness function will use labeled data. For example, if you ...
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### Can autoencoders be used for supervised learning?

One such paper I know of and which I implemented is Semi-Supervised Learning using Ladder Networks . I quote here their description of the model: Our approach follows Valpola (2015), who proposed a ...
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### Are these steps to get a final linear regression model correct?

In general these steps are correct, but are few clarifications would be good. For supervised learning, you can: pick model to use split data into training and test set train model, or determine ...
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### How can computers beat humans at image recognition, if humans may incorrectly label the images?

When researchers claim "better than human accuracy", they are demonstrating that a computer can beat an individual human on a test. And that is because the ground truth labels are actually higher ...
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### If the accuracy of my current model is low ($50 \%$) and we want to minimize time in collecting more data, should we try other models?

To know if your model needs more training data, try to plot out "learning curves", that are based on increasing size of the training set. Basically, you calculate training and validation accuracy ...
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