machine learning

scientific study of algorithms and statistical models that computer systems use to perform tasks without explicit instructions
Intangible academic_discipline Q2539
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machine learning

Summary

machine learning is an academic discipline[1]. It ranks in the top 0.69% of academic_discipline entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (10,074 views/month, #7 of 1,010).[2]

Key Facts

  • machine learning's instance of is recorded as academic discipline[3].
  • machine learning's instance of is recorded as field of study[4].
  • machine learning's instance of is recorded as field of study[5].
  • machine learning's instance of is recorded as learning approach[6].
  • machine learning's instance of is recorded as branch of computer science[7].
  • machine learning followed pattern recognition[8].
  • machine learning followed computational learning theory[9].
  • machine learning's developer is recorded as Arthur Samuel[10].
  • machine learning is a type of artificial intelligence[11].
  • machine learning is part of artificial intelligence[12].
  • machine learning is part of mathematics[13].
  • machine learning's Commons category is recorded as Machine learning[14].
  • machine learning is the opposite of machine unlearning[15].
  • machine learning comprises online machine learning[16].
  • machine learning comprises supervised learning[17].
  • machine learning comprises unsupervised learning[18].
  • machine learning comprises reinforcement learning[19].
  • machine learning's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Machine learning[20].
  • machine learning's described by source is recorded as Statistical Learning[21].
  • machine learning's partially coincident with is recorded as statistics[22].
  • machine learning's topic has template is recorded as Template:Machine learning bar[23].
  • machine learning's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stats.stackexchange.com/tags/machine-learning[24].
  • machine learning's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://datascience.stackexchange.com/tags/machine-learning[25].
  • machine learning's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://ai.stackexchange.com/tags/machine-learning[26].
  • machine learning's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/tags/machine-learning[27].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded instance of include academic discipline[3], field of study[4], learning approach[6], and branch of computer science[7]. machine learning is a type of artificial intelligence[11]. It is the opposite of machine unlearning[15].

Use and Application

Components include online machine learning[16]; supervised learning[17], a field of study[28]; unsupervised learning[18], an it method[29]; and reinforcement learning[19], an it method[30]. Part of include artificial intelligence[12], a type of technology[31] and mathematics[13], an academic discipline[32].

Why It Matters

machine learning ranks in the top 0.69% of academic_discipline entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (10,074 views/month, #7 of 1,010).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[33] It is known by 24 alternative names across languages and contexts.[34]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . intellipaat.com. intellipaat.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
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  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . doc.ic.ac.uk. Retrieved . doc.ic.ac.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . sinxloud.com. Retrieved . sinxloud.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . coursera.org. Retrieved . coursera.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . kanger.dev. kanger.dev. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . iqonlinetraining.com. iqonlinetraining.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
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  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [33] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [34] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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