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V Kishore AyyadevaraPro Machine Learning Algorithms https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3564-5_1

1. Basics of Machine Learning

V Kishore Ayyadevara1 
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Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
 

Machine learning can be broadly classified into supervised and unsupervised learning. By definition, the term supervised means that the “machine” (the system) learns with the help of something—typically a labeled training data.

Training data (or a dataset) is the basis on which the system learns to infer. An example of this process is to show the system a set of images of cats and dogs with the corresponding labels of the images (the labels say whether the image is of a cat or a dog) and let the system decipher the features of cats and ...

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