unsupervised learning

Terms from Artificial Intelligence: humans at the heart of algorithms

In unsupervised learning the training set is unlabelled, that is it has no markers to indicate a desired grouping or value. Unsupervised learning algorithms look for commonalities to group or infer other properties of the data. This may be used on its own, or be used as the first stage before human labelling or for a subsequent supervised learning method.

Defined on page 88

Used on pages 88, 121, 124, 171, 274, 371

Also known as unsupervised