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title: Supervised Learning
tags: ml
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### Supervised Learning
- Predicting labels given input features
- Regression
- A problem is a regression when the output labels take on arbitrary numerical values
- Classification
- Common loss function is cross entropy
- Hierarchical classification
- Not all errors are equal so if we are unsure, it’s better to classify something as one thing over another
- Tagging
- Predicting classes that are not mutually exclusive so a bounding box or image can be labelled as multiple different things
- Search
- Display set of relevant items to the user
- Recommender systems
- Display set of relevant items to the user but personalization to specific users
- Sequence learning
- Require a model to ingest sequences of inputs or to emit sequences of outputs (or both)