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Supervised Learning

The most common machine learning approach: training a model on labeled data where each example comes with the correct answer.

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The most common machine learning approach: training a model on labeled data where each example comes with the correct answer. The model learns to map inputs to outputs. Image classification, spam detection, and price prediction are supervised learning tasks. Requires labeled training data, which can be expensive to create.

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