machine learning

Question 1

What is machine learning?

Answer 1

study of computer algorithms that improve automatically through experience

Question 2

What tasks are suitable for machine learning? (x3)

Answer 2

spam filtering
pattern recognition
data mining

Question 3

conventional engineering design flow

Answer 3

acquisition of domain knowledge
(physics based mathematical model)
Algorithm development
(algorithm with performance guarantees)

Question 4

machine learning design flow

Answer 4

acquisition of data
(training set)
hypothesis class > learning
(black box machine)

Question 5

3 types of machine learning

Answer 5

supervised learning
unsupervised learning (clustering)
reinforcements learning

Question 6

What is required for supervised learning?

Answer 6

input and output data are known

Question 7

What is required for unsupervised learning?

Answer 7

input only is known

Question 8

What is required for reinforcement learning?

Answer 8

input data and quality measure is known