Machine Learning学习笔记 Lecture1

Machine Learning

最近在Coursera用英文字幕学习吴恩达的机器学习，学的有点头大。正好Coursera每节课后自带重点很方便做笔记，来写写笔记，给自己学习的正反馈。

Lecture1

Definition:

Old: “the field of study that gives computers the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed.”

Modern: "A computer program is said to learn from experience E with respect to some task T and some performance measure P, if its performance on T, as measured by P, improves with experience E."

Machine learning algorithms:

• Supervised learning监督学习
• Unsupervised learning无监督学习

Supervised learning

​ In supervised learning, we are given a data set and already know what our correct output should look like, having the idea that there is a relationship between the input and the output.

Problem Type:

• Regression: predict results within a continuous output, meaning that we are trying to map input variables to some continuous function.连续输出
• Classification: predict results in a discrete output. In other words, we are trying to map input variables into discrete categories.离散输出

Unsupervised learning

​ Allows us to approach problems with little or no idea what our results should look like.(no answer)

e.g.

• Clustering: Take a collection of 1,000,000 different genes, and find a way to automatically group these genes into groups that are somehow similar or related by different variables, such as lifespan, location, roles, and so on. 聚合问题
• Non-clustering: The “Cocktail Party Algorithm”, allows you to find structure in a chaotic environment. (i.e. identifying individual voices and music from a mesh of sounds at a cocktail party). 鸡尾酒会问题