A Criminally Short Introduction to Semi Supervised Learning

Linear Digressions

• Episode: A Criminally Short Introduction to Semi Supervised Learning
• Website: Linear Digressions
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• Duration: 00:09:12
• Published: 2015-12-04 04:13

Because there are more interesting problems than there are labeled datasets, semi-supervised learning provides a framework for getting feedback from the environment as a proxy for labels of what's "correct." Of all the machine learning methodologies, it might also be the closest to how humans usually learn--we go through the world, getting (noisy) feedback on the choices we make and learn from the outcomes of our actions.