What is Machine Learning?
Study of algorithms that
• improve their performance
• at some task
• with experience
Application
Speech recognition, Natural language processing Computer vision Medical outcomes analysis Computational biology Sensor networks Social networks Robocup
Broad categories -
• Supervised learning Classification, Regression
• Unsupervised learning Density estimation, Clustering, Dimensionality reduction
• Semi-supervised learning
• Active learning
• Reinforcement learning
• Online learning
• Transfer learning
• Multitask learning
• Many more
