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Chapter 15: Machine Learning Basics

Learning Objectives​

By the end of this chapter, you will:

  • Understand supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning
  • Learn about training and testing
  • Understand overfitting
  • Learn about common ML algorithms

Introduction​

Machine learning enables robots to learn from data and improve their performance over time.

Placeholder Content​

Topics to be covered:

  • ML paradigms
  • Training and validation
  • Feature engineering
  • Common algorithms (regression, classification, clustering)

Did You Know?​

Interesting ML fact.

Real-World Examples​

  1. Recommender Systems - Product suggestions
  2. Spam Detection - Email filtering
  3. Handwriting Recognition - Digit classification

Key Takeaways​

  • To be added

Try It!​

Simple ML classification activity.

Exercises​

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  2. Question
  3. Question

Further Reading​

  • Chapter 16: Deep Learning for Vision
  • Chapter 17: Reinforcement Learning

Next Chapter: Chapter 16: Deep Learning for Vision