supervised learning

Terms from Artificial Intelligence: humans at the heart of algorithms

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In supervised learning the training set is labelled, that is it has some form of markers to indicate a desired grouping or value. The supervised algorithm typically attempts to emulate or approximate the labelling of the training set.

Used in Chap. 5: page 68; Chap. 6: pages 87, 90; Chap. 8: page 115; Chap. 9: pages 127, 128, 129, 139; Chap. 14: page 229; Chap. 16: page 260

Also known as supervised, supervised algorithm, supervised machine learning, supervised technique