Types Of Machine Learning
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Supervised Learning:
- How it Learns:
- Like teaching with examples. You show the machine lots of labeled examples (like photos labeled as cats or dogs) so it can learn from them. In simple language a trainer train the ML model by providing input and output so they can perform next action on the basis of the that input and output.
2. Use Case:
Predicting things based on what it’s learned before. For instance, guessing if a new picture is a cat or a dog.
Predictive modeling, classification, regression
3. Algorithms:
Linear Regression: Predicts continuous values (e.g., housing prices).
Logistic Regression: Classifies data into categories (e.g., spam or not spam emails).
Support Vector Machines (SVM): Effective for both classification and regression tasks.
Decision Trees and Random Forest: Used for classification and regression, handling complex datasets.
Naive Bayes: Great for text classification and spam filtering.
Unsupervised Learning:
- How it Learns:
- It’s like sorting things without any instructions. The machine looks for patterns or groups in the data all by itself. There is no no trainer who train the model . On the basis of input they grouping the data (clustering)
2. Use Case:
- Grouping similar things together without being told what makes them similar. For example, sorting different colored marbles by their shades.
3. Algorithms:
K-Means Clustering: Segments data into clusters based on similarity.
Hierarchical Clustering: Organizes data into a tree-like cluster hierarchy.
Principal Component Analysis (PCA): Reduces dimensions in data while retaining important information.
Apriori Algorithm: Discovers patterns in large datasets, often used in market basket analysis.
Reinforcement Learning:
- How it Learns:
- Learning by doing and getting rewards or punishments. The machine tries different actions and learns from the consequences.
2. Use Case:
- Like teaching a robot to play a game by letting it try different strategies and rewarding good moves.
Algorithms:
Q-Learning: Teaches agents to take optimal actions in a specific environment.
Deep Q-Networks (DQN): Uses deep neural networks to tackle complex environments.
Policy Gradient Methods: Directly learn policies to maximize rewards.
Actor-Critic Models: Combines value estimation (critic) with action selection (actor) in an environment.