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Principles of Learning

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Machine learning is, for the most part, sub-divided into three components based on the approach to the learning problem. The three predominant categories of learning are the supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning schemes. In this chapter, we will go over supervised learning schemes in detail and also touch upon unsupervised and reinforcement learning schemes to a lesser extent.

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Bisong, E. (2019). Principles of Learning. In: Building Machine Learning and Deep Learning Models on Google Cloud Platform. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4470-8_14

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