What is the difference between supervised and unsupervised machine learning?

Machine Learning

What is the difference between supervised and unsupervised machine learning?


Generally, Supervised Machine learning or Supervised Machine at first, the machine has to be trained with well-labelled or well-aligned data. Most of the Supervised Machine Learning algorithms will be classification and regression algorithms. Some examples for Supervised Machine Learning,

  • Linear regression
  • Support Vector Machine
  • Random Forest
  • Naïve Bayes algorithm

In Unsupervised Machine Learning, as the name implies, it doesn’t need to be supervised. Unsupervised machine learning will feed itself by a set of untagged data.

  • Hierarchical clustering
  • K-means clustering
  • K-nearest neighbours
  • Anomaly detection
  • Neural Networks

These machine learning algorithms will lend their hand in Data Science applications, Data Mining, Big Data Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, and Cloud Computing.

REFERENCE: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22475-2_1