What is Machine Learning?
• Machine Learning is the field of study that gives computers the capability
to learn without being explicitly programmed. ML is one of the most
exciting technologies that one would have ever come across. As it is
evident from the name, it gives the computer that makes it more similar to
humans: The ability to learn. Machine learning is actively being used today,
perhaps in many more places than one would expect.
• Superpower of Learning
• No Explicit Programming Needed
• Exciting Technology
• Similar to Humans
• Active Everywhere
• Arthur Samuel, an early American leader in the field of computer
gaming and artificial intelligence, coined the term “Machine Learning
” in 1959 while at IBM.
• “the field of study that gives computers the ability to learn without
being explicitly programmed “.
Definition 1:
• Machine learning is programming computers to optimize a performance
criterion using example data or past experience. We have a model defined
up to some parameters, and learning is the execution of a computer
program to optimize the parameters of the model using the training data
or past experience. The model may be predictive to make predictions in the
future, or descriptive to gain knowledge from data.
• Optimizing Performance
• Model with Parameters:
• Learning Process:
• Training Data or Past Experience
• Predictive or Descriptive
Definition 2:
• The field of study known as machine learning is concerned with the
question of how to construct computer programs that automatically
improve with experience.
Definition of learning:
• A computer program is said to learn from experience E with respect
to some class of tasks T and performance measure P, if its
performance at tasks T, as measured by P, improves with experience
E.
Examples
• Handwriting recognition learning problem
• Task T : Recognizing and classifying handwritten words within images
• Performance P : Percent of words correctly classified
• Training experience E : A dataset of handwritten words with given
classifications
• A robot driving learning problem
• Task T : Driving on highways using vision sensors
• Performance P : Average distance traveled before an error
• Training experience E : A sequence of images and steering commands
recorded while observing a human driver
Features of Machine learning
• Machine learning is data driven technology. Large amount of data
generated by organizations on daily bases. So, by notable
relationships in data, organizations makes better decisions.
• Machine can learn itself from past data and automatically improve.
• From the given dataset it detects various patterns on data.
• For the big organizations branding is important and it will become
more easy to target relatable customer base.
• It is similar to data mining because it is also deals with the huge
amount of data.
• A computer program which learns from experience is called a
machine learning program or simply a learning program .