AI Glossary

Supervised learning

What does “Supervised learning” mean?

Supervised learning: Training a model on examples that come with the correct answer attached, called labels. By comparing its guesses to those answers and correcting itself, the model learns to label new, unseen examples. It is one of the most common ways to build practical machine learning systems.

Supervised learning visual guide: Training a model on examples that come with the correct answer attached, called labels. By comparing its guesses to those answers and correcting itself, the model learns to label new, unseen examples. It is one of the most common ways to build practical machine learning systems.
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What is an example of “Supervised learning”?

Training a model on emails already marked "spam" or "not spam" is supervised learning.

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Unsupervised learningTermReinforcement learningTermData labelingTermDatasetTerm

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Instruction tuningTermSelf-supervised learningTermTrainingTermTraining dataTermPromptTerm