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Machine Learning Fundamentals

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What machine learning fundamentals means

Supervised and unsupervised learning, training, evaluation and overfitting.

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Question

In supervised learning, the training data consists of:

  • Inputs only
  • Input-output pairs (features with labels)
  • Random noise
  • Unlabelled clusters
Answer: Input-output pairs (features with labels)

Working: Supervised learning learns a mapping from inputs to outputs using labelled examples, e.g. images tagged "cat" or "dog".

Curriculum and exam alignment

Tertiary foundation coursework

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Related skills

Other Artificial Intelligence skills in Computing, at the same point in the course.

Other Computing topics

Computational ThinkingProgrammingDigital LiteracySHS ICTUniversity ComputingClever Machines

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