Introduction to

Machine Learning

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 Overview
● What is Machine Learning?

● Applications of Machine Learning

● Types of Machine Learning

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 What is Machine Learning?
● “Field of study that gives computers the ability to
learn without being explicitly programmed”
 Arthur Samuel (1959)

● “A computer program is said to learn from

experience E with respect to some class of tasks T
and performance measure P, if its performance at
tasks in T, as measured by P, improves with
experience E”
 Tom M. Mitchell (1998)

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 Example of Machine Learning

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 Applications of Machine Learning
 Facial recognition
 Self-customizing programs (Netflix, Amazon, etc.)
 Spam detection
 Internet search
 Data mining medical records

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 Supervised Learning
 Given labeled training examples
 Find correct prediction for an unlabeled example
 E.g. Handwriting recognition

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 Unsupervised Learning
 Given unlabeled training samples
 Discover low dimensional patterns, structure
 E.g. Cluster news articles by topic

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 Reinforcement Learning
 Learn from delayed feedback
 E.g. Machine learns how to play chess

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